Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:39:08 +0000 From: Marc Draco <marcdraco@protonmail.com> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Idea: Blockchain CAPTCHA Message-ID: <uinHRnjYah2MQD_f-deyGI0uCjI6J4JS8zgBMjjLxLYbKvsVHOLDrueHIOjc57tJ5qT0ETX5eeN_fMx2A9ZxQpZoOVF-L7pVAKa4j3biA_U=@protonmail.com>
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Apologies if this is the wrong list, but you seem the most likely candidates to know how possible/practical this is. I hate captchas as much as the next guy and probably more than a lot of people because my sight isn't what it used to be. However, privacy is more of a concern and I have a hate-hate relationship with Google that gets deeper with every piece of web it steals/buys. Since it bought ReCaptcha I've found myself increasingly in a position where I can't avoid Google as it's preventing access to sites I need to access (including some government ones). Hence it seems we need a more open and privacy respecting solution for "essential" services. I don't understand enough of blockchain to know how practicat this is but it does appear to offer a potential solution to the problem of anonymous (anonymising) Turing tests. I hope we can get some positive ideas here - if it's not possible or practical, then that's great but I've been upfront about how I feel about Google (and others) and I feel strongly that we need to take back the web a little bit at a time: the way that Tim B-L intended. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.help
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