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I'm surprised at the lack of "innovative" new captcha ideas targetted towards mobile devices. "Spin your phone clockwise 3 times and lick the screen to prove y

I'm surprised at the lack of "innovative" new captcha ideas targetted towards mobile devices. "Spin your phone clockwise 3 times and lick the screen to prove you're not a robot"

kmfrk 14y ago
It wouldn't kill them to do a viewport check. I mean, unless they expect crackers to run their servers from a jailbroken iPad? I also had to change my Yahoo! password for Flickr a while back, and I think the maximum length of my password was still at ~32 characters ... and there's not two-factor authentication to boot. Yahoo! is very AOL-like still, which is one of those things I really, really hope Meyer can do away with.
- kanzure 14y ago
  > I mean, unless they expect crackers to run their servers from a jailbroken iPad? Way more sophisticated than that. Think in terms of emulation, simulation, HTTP spoofing, etc.
  - kmfrk 14y ago
    Ah, of course. D'oh. Maybe this is just my first real WebView experience with a log-in process. I just wonder how there isn't an alternative (besides a native app).
- rohitnair 14y ago
  Actually, they do have two-factor auth and apparently have had it for over a year now (I had no idea as well) Hit https://edit.yahoo.com/commchannel/sec_chal_manage https://edit.yahoo.com/commchannel/sec_chal_manage to set it up. They've also finally added https support to Yahoo Mail. It's turned off by default, but still encouraging signs considering how long we've been waiting for it.
  - kmfrk 14y ago
    It's only available for something like ten countries, though. :/