Comments on: KittenAuth

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:37:45 +0000

cool! Thanks for that Pete, it all makes perfect sense now. I find those captcha things quite troublesome sometimes myself. You can’t go wrong with kittens really.

By: Russ L

Russ L — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:30:13 +0000

… he says, spelling ‘decipher’ incorrectly.

By: Russ L

Russ L — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 00:29:19 +0000

That is brilliant.

I quite often find those CAPTCHA doo-dars difficult to desipher, myself despite not having any sort of dyslexia or visual problems.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:28:31 +0000

Sorry Gary. I often erroneously assume this stuff is obvious.

When you sign up for services like Yahoo mail or post comments on Blogger you often have to solve a CAPTCHA puzzle by identifying the letters in a mussed up graphic, the idea being a computer can’t solve it but the human mind can. This prevents spammers and evil folk from automatically signing up. See Wikipedia for more, naturally.

The problem with CAPTCHAs is they can be hard to solve if you’re slightly dyslexic or have visual problems. This KittenAuth idea, while on the surface quite silly, is a better one because pretty much anyone can identify a kitten on sight. And it features kittens, which is always a good thing.

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:12:27 +0000

Is this some sort of inter-webby in-joke or something, cos it’s going right over my head.

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 15:51:56 +0000

Awwwwww.

Now I want a kitten :)