Bost Office?

[Dave Birch] I hate the stupid "captcha" codes that some web sites use to determine whether you are person or a spam bot when logging in to a web site. Earlier todsy I had to create yet another Windows Live ID because I'd forgotten what my old one was. Why Windows Live can't use OpenID I don't know, but instead it forces you to mess about entering the same old data over again. Stupid. What's more, because I couldn't figure out what the captcha code actually was, I took me four attempts to finally log in correctly. I mean what on Earth does this say???

This provides no security at all, of course, because the spammers already have software that can read captcha codes better than I can, so what's the point? Surely it would be easier for Windows to accept OpenID log ins from sites that have already made people jump through hoops to prove that they are actually people.

In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen megabytes