Re:Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way a...
by mrkramer on Sunday August 08, 2021 @08:23AM
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Thanks for extensive explanation, but idk how feasible and cost effective would be to do this "en masse". It seems like a lot of work and effort for small gain of cracking a captcha task/s. And yes I agree privacy would be a problem because people don't want some random and untrusted site to access their webcam and/or mic. But I still thinks my idea has some potential. Maybe someone else will come up with better captcha idea.
Metadata is trivial to modify, e.g. FFMpeg can do it, and it usually doesn't say anything about genuine-ness anyway. Besides, if you're generating your fake input in software, you'd just generate metadata to go with it.
Sorry, but there are so many holes in your idea that it seems completely unworkable. Even if new developments made it more feasible (new webcams and microphones that cryptographically sign their recordings? Still fakeable by the speakers and screen setup above. Depth-sensing cameras might be trickier.) people would rebel against allowing any and every site to access their webcam and microphone (and hence possibly spy on them).