The simplicity of it is logic defying. It used to be that you had to find crosswalks or move puzzle pieces or type blurred letters and numbers, but NOW all the sudden I can just click a box and HEY!, I’m human?

That’s hardly the Turing Test I’d expected.

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    Interesting that my mouse movement is available to anyone who wants it.

    It seems like a small step from that to accessing my keyboard.

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      They can only access it while you’re focused on their webpage. CORS is all about that.

      If you click off to another web page and enter information or type of password into a secondary app they can’t gather that. As soon as they lose focus they lose the ability to capture your data.

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        Nbd, but it sounds like you’re talking about encapsulation of event capture (viewport stops receiving events after losing focus).

        CORS is a protocol for client-side enforcement of a server-side security policy. It ensures that a resource request (e.g. “my-totally-safe-resource.wasm”) only loads from a location your server permits (e.g. “my-valid-origin.biz”, “friends-valid-origin.org”, etc).