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kolanos on Jan 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uncaptcha2: Defeat ReCaptcha with Google Speech2Te...

1. In OSX, enable VoiceOver (CMD+F5).

2. Navigate to a RECAPTCHA.

3. Click the "I Am not a bot" checkbox.

How is this not an exploit? Is Google doing something extra when it detects a screen reader?

hartator on Jan 5, 2019 [–]

What do you mean? Enabling VoiceOver on OSX is being white-listed by ReCaptchapa?

kolanos on Jan 5, 2019 | [–]

Yes. Or at least it appears that way.

dcbadacd on Jan 6, 2019 | | [–]

I don't doubt that Google employees are reading this thread and this might make the life of sight-impaired a bit worse.

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