Cloudflare wants to replace captchas with physical security keys – Computer – News

Cloudflare’s claim that 500 million years per day would be lost has poor substantiation. The fact that people spend time on a check does not just mean that time is wasted.

Previously, people mainly had to go to a physical company to buy something in person, or you called. The advantage of this was that you knew how to trade with a person, but in the meantime they preferred more customers at less cost. And those customers didn’t just take the time to travel or call your company. Although a captcha takes time, many customers do take the trouble. You could just as well say that a captcha is not wasted time, but a lot of savings and profit.

The question is why those 500 million years a day should be seen as waste if it is apparently acceptable. Just because something else is even faster does not mean it has acceptable problems. Such as, for example, the costs for the extra hardware, costs of having to carry with you in case of spontaneous actions, handing over the costs of privacy to a company you have not asked for, costs of letting go of the simple simplicity that even a digital literate can understand. , etc.

Cloudflare presents their plan as a solution without reasonably stating what the problem is, and especially for whom. It sounds like they are more interested in their plan to have these personal keys used than first objectively assessing why captchas exist.

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