[thelist] Re: Security code images

[Richard Davey]

Hello John,

Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 9:25:33 PM, you wrote:

JBsc> So following this line of thought, rendering a word as a picture seems to be
JBsc> overkill for the intended purpose?

Well, yes and no :) I can see a use for sites that ask you to "enter
the numbers you see above" with regard to bot prevention. But the ones
I have seen to date are not always that hot at rendering the numbers,
often overlapping them to make an "image scanners" task harder, but in
actual fact making the end-users harder. I would never have thought of
the "rabbit" idea myself if it wasn't for the fact that a site I
registered on yesterday did just that, with rabbits too! I have to
admit I did appreciate the fact I didn't have to stare hard into a
numeric text mess in order to register.

Of course, had it been coded realistically, it should have said "you
said there were 3 rabbits, but there are actually 4 by now" :)

Best regards,

Richard Davey
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