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2026-05-22 08:53 UTC
@WPalant@infosec.exchange Does this even stop spammers/bots when they have one of the mobile phone farms with racks full of phones?
It shouldn't be too hard to just use one of these phones for a quick scan and might even be less effort than solving a captcha?
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@WPalant@infosec.exchange 2026-05-22 09:29
@zollak@bonn.social I assume that they won’t be accepting just any phone (if they still do it now then they certainly plan to change it in future). It’s about checking whether the phone in question has a usage profile that matches a human. Getting this to work with phone farms might be non-trivial. They seem to speculate on it requiring more resources than solving visual challenges automatically which right now is rapidly becoming trivial.