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Communications of the ACM, the flagship journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, featured Arkose Labs CEO Kevin Gosschalk in a feature on the identity crisis facing online verification systems. Gosschalk contributed two key arguments: first, that there is no intrinsic way to verify identity on the internet and AI-fueled attacks have made it increasingly easy for bad actors to reverse-engineer verification systems; and second, that the industry should shift its focus away from determining whether traffic is human toward identifying and preventing bad behavior. The piece surveys researchers from Cornell, the University of Chicago and Padua University on how behavioral biometrics, cryptographic proofs and blockchain-based identity systems may replace CAPTCHA as the standard for verification.
