Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Well, one thing is for sure, no trollers will break in...

One of the website I visit for work - the L.A. Law Library - has a "type the following words" system of ensuring you are a human.  It is similiar to this website's method of ensuring that comment posters are real, live, living people.  You have to type a somewhat obscured word to prove you can read and interpret. 

Now, most times the word in these types of challenges is simply overlayed on a grid, or slightly twisted, or has alternating black and white backgrounds.  But not the site in question.  Noooooo.  Its scrambling procedures are absolutely over the top.  Twisted words with alternating backgrounds and random slashes; all at once.  And you have to type two words, not just one.

I often have to visit this site probably 2 or 3 times per week, passing its challenge 2 or 3 times per visit.  I sometimes have to make 2 or 3 attempts just to get both words right.  So either I'm an idiot, or this challenge is seriously hard.  It's like a very unfun and unfair puzzle in Zelda.  Or the entire game Dark Souls, apparently.

So today I visit the site, and I'm on login attempt, oh, I don't know, 7, when this is the challenge:

Well, nobody who isn't human will access the site, that is for sure.  Of course, I'm not sure how any human will gain access either, but if you are 100% deadset on making sure no unwanted guests visit, I guess this ensures that.

All this to protect court briefs that are located on a one-way system (download only, no upload) and are offered free to the public.

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