Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Internet users to pass human rights test to unlock sites...

A Swedish civil rights group has unveiled a new CAPTCHA (a test that verifies a user is human before letting him enter a part of a website). Instead of trying to make out a scrambled word, users will now have to show an understanding of human rights.

For human users, CAPTCHAS (or Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are a constant nuisance, as web surfers reload, squint and hope they are typing the right word. But for website administrators they are a necessity, stopping automated programs, or bots, from registering accounts and then filling email boxes and forum walls with spam.

Now, Stockholm-based Civil Rights Defenders has devised a CAPTCHA that allows people to show that their “empathy” is what makes them different from mindless robots.

It presents users with various examples of human rights abuse.

For example, “The Vice Minister of Defense in Albania, Ekrem Spahui, thinks gays should be beat up with a stick. How does that make you feel?”

It gives them the option of “fascinated”,“homesick”, or “terrible”. Full story...

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