Mike Cardwell wrote:
> W B Hacker wrote:
>
>> Going forward with a new Webmail client, we're looking at 'also' having the
>> Webmail user select from a randomly-positioned graphic - one among several -
>> with a mouse-click - as has been used by some of the financial services giants.
>> Pity some of those paid less rigourous attention to the rest of their 'core'
>> business (Countrywide).
>>
>> The html has to use a call for the graphic that is essentially 'one time' coded,
>> whilst the back-end relates the choice - 'out of sight' - to the specific user
>> and no other. Fortunately, our back-end for auth is PostgreSQL, so the
>> flexibility is already there.
>
> That sounds like the "select the picture" section on the signup form for
> https://www.localphone.com/register
>
> I don't get those things. They're meant to stop automated machines from
> signing up, yet in reality all they do is make the automated machine
> make on average three HTTP requests rather than one, in order to sign
> up. Completely useless.
>
Perhaps so in that case. Not so in others.
But ... as you said. You 'don't get it'.
Fortunately, on the well-engineered ones, neither do the robots...
;-)
Bill
