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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

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405 points blindgeek | 2 comments | 18 Nov 24 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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lupusreal ◴[18 Nov 24 14:33 UTC] No.42172579[source]▶
I hope AI stuff makes captchas completely obsolete soon. I am sick of them. The cure is worse than the disease.
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xdennis ◴[18 Nov 24 14:49 UTC] No.42172762[source]▶
But surely, it's only going to get worse: it will force the de-anonymization of the internet. You already have to provide a phone number for many services.

If websites can't trust that their users are authentic they will probably institute even more intrusive checks.

I haven't been optimistic about the future of technology for a while now. :'(

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rvnx ◴[18 Nov 24 15:00 UTC] No.42172888[source]▶
In the future I think we will again go to "notarization"/"attestation" of the operating system / hardware.

Essentially, the manufacturer of the device + operating system will generate a unique signature per each device, and web browsers will be able to access it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

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1. slooonz ◴[18 Nov 24 15:17 UTC] No.42173093[source]▶
How does that works for, say, Chromium or Firefox on Linux ?
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2. rvnx ◴[18 Nov 24 15:48 UTC] No.42173498[source]▶
I believe the plan was to ask the TPM of the computer.

From what I understood, each TPM has a unique private/public key pair (Endorsement Key (EK)), and then this key is certified by the manufacturer of the TPM.

From there, you can generate a Attestation Keys, and these keys are signed by the EK.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/235148/whats-th...

So essentially, at the end of the day, Chromium would ask the TPM for attestation, and it would act as a unique Device ID.

Then they can allow only a selected list of TPM manufacturers certificates, to prevent emulators for example.

TL;DR: Chromium on Linux would ask the TPM chip for a signature, and each TPM chip has a different signature from the moment it is out of the factory.