[thelist] Re: Security code images

[John.Brooking at sappi.com]

Hi, Richard,

>JBsc> But it obviously can't be 3 rabbits every time, or someone will just
teach
>JBsc> their script to answer "3". I guess you could vary the number of
rabbits,

[lots of silly stuff omitted - some of it I meant tongue-in-cheek...]

>Sorry but what have these scripts got to do with security in that
>sense? They're not used for password validation or anything similar,
>they're merely to stop bots and allow humans access, surely? To
>that end having to make a human extract something of meaning from a
>photograph, no matter how small the pool, would still stop a bot in
>its tracks and that, I believe, was the objective here.

You're right, I was kind of missing the point, then running with it (to mix
metaphors). Of course security and bot-prevention are not the same thing. So
a small number of possible answers would be okay, assuming it's not worth
the time of any bot-writer to research a site sufficiently to learn the
possible answers and then program the bot to guess. Especially if the site
is keeping track of bad guesses, as you say.

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

I like your click idea, too.

John Brooking, Application Developer
Sappi Fine Paper
South Portland, ME, 04106 USA
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