This page contains resources related to my July 22nd, 2022 talk officially called “hCaptcha: Profits over People and Fscking Useless ”. Due to new information I got after the deadline for changes, the talk I actually gave I titled “Is the CAPTCHA dead?”.

Each section of this page begins with a level 2 header.

Table of Contents

• Slides
• External Resources on Accessibility Technology and Software Accessibility
• Code
• Video
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Questions, Comments and Other Things

Slides

Download the slides as Open Office ODP or PowerPoint PPTX. These include speaker’s notes with approximately what I’ll say, transcripts and descriptions of the videos, and descriptions of all images used in the talk.

External Resources on Accessibility Technology and Software Accessibility

Want to learn more about accessibility technology? These pages are organized approximately from least to most technical. I’ve tried to focus on resources by people with …

This page contains resources related to my February 2nd, 2022 talk, “Broken Captchas and Fractured Equity: Privacy and Security in hCaptcha’s Accessibility Workflow”. Each section of this page begins with a level 2 header.

Table of Contents

• Slides
• External Resources on Accessibility Technology and Software Accessibility
• Code
• Video
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Questions, Comments and Other Things

Slides

Download the slides as Open Office ODP or PowerPoint PPTX. These include speaker’s notes with approximately what I’ll say, transcripts and descriptions of the videos, and descriptions of all images used in the talk.

External Resources on Accessibility Technology and Software Accessibility

Want to learn more about accessibility technology? These pages are organized approximately from least to most technical. I’ve tried to focus on resources by people with disabilities, or at least recommended by them.

There are many excellent resources out there. If …

Note from Steve (April 3, 2022): I’m leaving this up because it’s a thing I wrote once upon a time. In the intervening 7.5 years, some of my opinions have shifted. Some haven’t. And frankly I’m not sure about some of my textual interpretation here anymore. A post like this is best left to experts - not some 23-year-old.

I still think “hacking back” is a terrible idea, but we’ve managed not to have a cyberattack turn into a shooting war. Much the opposite – we’re now seeing that overt and offensive cyberattacks can sometimes be components of shooting wars.

On the other hand, I now come down on the opposite side on liability. At this point, it’s better companies can disclose attacks so they can be mitigated and consumers can react appropriately. We’ve also seen that in cases of actual/gross negligence, there is still liability. Also, market forces still incentivize protecting consumer information.

Anyway, the original post …