Wikimedia Security Team/Random Meetings/2019 09 16 Captcha Working Group

Date/time: September 16th, 2019 - 11:30 AM PDT

Attending: David, Reedy, Evan, Scott

Agenda


 * 1) Evan: update on reaching out to CE team.
 * 2) Evan reached out to Growth.  And ML folks.  Not much to discuss currently.
 * 3) Evan: update on Dan/Partnerships Google meeting.
 * 4) Dan and Evan chatted re: plan for Google.  Secteam has this already in captcha options sheet - Evan to re-format as Doc or mw.org page.
 * 5) Evan: update on CPT product plan.
 * 6) CPT initiative: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team/Initiative/Captcha/Initiative_Description.  First step.  What CPT feels they are able to do and how to get it done.  In Initiative Tracking Process: near-term, next cal year, next fiscal year?  Product team has as potential effort for annual plan 2019, but most likely not occurring.  Evan getting light approval from Product to take over.
 * 7) David, Scott: update on reCaptcha non-starters
 * 8) See (2)
 * 9) David, Scott: update on captcha data collection/analysis from logs
 * 10) Will perhaps work on informally, make sense to perform during official project kickoff, part of early phase.
 * 11) Security Vendor Captcha research engagement
 * 12) Timeline?  For sure happening?  Scott to confirm.
 * 13) Other mitigations
 * 14) SFS production implementation, still work in progress.