[indiana-l] A Word About CAPTCHA Solving Tools

[Kane Brolin]

I understand that I and a few others have brought up CAPTCHA when
we've discussed Facebook.  My apologies if CAPTCHA has been covered at
great length before on the Indiana Discussion List.  But in case it
has not  ...

There are new tools available for IE and Firefox users, respectively,
to make it so that totally blind PC users don't have to get sighted
help to solve these visual CAPTCHA images.  The way this works is that
you install a special add-on to your browser, which will detect
CAPTCHA on any page you command it to.  The CAPTCHA image will be
forwarded to someplace else--(I'm not sure how the back end of the
process works)--and the resulting text is then sent back and pasted in
your Windows clipboard.  So you can just navigate to the edit box on
the page with the CAPTCHA, paste your text into the box with CTRL+v,
and click on SUBMIT for your CAPTCHA solution to be processed.

If you use IE, the source for your CAPTCHA solver is Solona, found at
http://solona.net/.  Incidentally, Solona's home page is now asking
for volunteers willing to test their CAPTCHA solver on Facebook
Mobile.

If you use Firefox, your tool is Webvisum, and this is found at
http://webvisum.com/.

Both sites require you to set up an account with them, which requires
registration.  I've never used Solona; but the Webvisum site requires
you to have an invitation code, which you can get from someone else
who uses Webvisum; or you can have the site generate such a code for
you through just some maneuvering with the site.  This code is needed
to activate the CAPTCHA solver on your PC.

-Kane