- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:47:08 +0000
- To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Cc: W3C WAI Accessible Platform Architectures <public-apa@w3.org>
On 28/10/2017 19:18, Janina Sajka wrote: > Thanks, Leonie: > > Two quick comments ... > > Léonie Watson writes: >> Janina, >> >> This might be of interest to the RQTF working on the CAPTCHA document. It >> reports that AI has been used to successfully solve a CAPTCHA: >> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41775968 > > > 1.) Interestingly, the above URI won't resolve, at least not the > past few hours. I can resolve bbc.com, but not www.bbc.com; yet an http > request to bbc.com gets redirected to www.bbc.com. Seems someone's > might have gotten their web server and DNS configs misaligned? > Possibly, yes. Although I realise that I was outside of the UK at the time I copied the URL. Now back in the UK, it resolves through to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41775968 > 2.) Can you confirm whether the BBC news item is about the article in Science? > > http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/10/26/science.aag2612 Yes, it seems to be the same thing. > > Jason spotted this one yesterday, and I now have a todo about checking > for their policy on persistent URIs, as I expect we'll want to cite this > article in any Captcha Note rewrite. > > Thanks again for flagging this. No problem. > > Janina > > >> >> -- >> @LeonieWatson @tink@toot.cafe tink.uk carpe diem > -- @LeonieWatson @tink@toot.cafe tink.uk carpe diem
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