- Nix ( @nix@merv.news ) English67•1 year ago
Wow that’s awesome hopefully they open source it and make it easy for anyone to use
- TechieDamien ( @TechieDamien@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
mCaptcha is an open source proof of work tool to tackle bots.
- Polar ( @Polar@lemmy.ca ) 33•1 year ago
This company can’t stop starting new projects and putting their current ones on the back burner. Their services are all spread out between multiple operating systems. Want proton drive app? Better use Windows. Want the new proton mail app? Better use iOS. Want anything? Better not use Linux.
- Father_Redbeard ( @Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
The android app is so bad I just straight up stopped using them as a service. Very frustrating.
- pseudorandom ( @pseudorandom@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
The more companies that build these the harder they will be to defeat with a bot.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“As we investigated available CAPTCHA options, we weren’t satisfied, so we decided to develop our own,” Eamonn Maguire, a former Facebook engineer who now heads up Proton’s machine learning team, wrote in a blog post.
This is usually presented to the user in the form of a visual or cognitive challenge, one that is relatively easy for a human to complete but difficult for a machine.
CAPTCHAs, while generally effective, come with trade-offs in terms of usability, accessibility, cultural biases, and annoyances that businesses would prefer not to impose on their users.
This is why companies such as Apple and Cloudflare have sought ways to tell the difference between humans and bots automatically using alternative mechanisms, such as through device and telemetry data.
And while there are other alternative CAPTCHA services out there, given Proton’s core raison d’être, it clearly does make sense to develop its own — as resource-intensive as that may be.
“In this manner, a botnet that can bypass the initial proof of work but struggles with the visual challenges will be met with increasingly complex computations.
The original article contains 642 words, the summary contains 179 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
- library_napper ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 8•1 year ago
Here’s the original article
- Lemmchen ( @Lemmchen@feddit.de ) English3•1 year ago
In the future, we may also consider making it available for third-parties who care about privacy via an API.
Wait, it isn’t even available for other services?
- library_napper ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 1•1 year ago
Yeah and wheres the source code?
- zoe ( @zoe@infosec.pub ) 1•1 year ago
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