From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 14:35:25 GMT-3
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Joseph D. Phillips wrote:
> I have been told by vendors that SSNs can be faxed and still be secure enough for HIPAA.
>
> If e-mailing a non-clear-text image of a password is the practical equivalent, I would rather do that.
And this relates to the CCIE lab how?
> I do notice that many web sites now make you repeat the characters you see embedded in images, before you can navigate further into the web sites.
>
> I'm assuming that's how they make sure it's a human being looking at the web page, and not some mechanical device sniffing information as the page is downloaded.
Yes. Google "Turing test".
Others are saving a .gif or .png of the text of their email address for
use in web pages to brevent harvesting by spammers.
Not really relevant to the CCIE lab, though. There are other fora that
should provide better answers to you and less noise for the rest of us. :-)
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