http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/ Increase Online Conversion Strategies and Solutions Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7003 ? Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:37 +0000 http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7003 THEY ARE SO THAT A COMPUTER HACKER CANNOT GET INTOP THE SYSTEM AS EASY. COMPUERS CANNOT READ IT! THEY ARE SO THAT A COMPUTER HACKER CANNOT GET INTOP THE SYSTEM AS EASY. COMPUERS CANNOT READ IT!

]]> http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7004 ♥Kaylee♥ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:37 +0000 http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7004 This feature is called: CAPTCHA A CAPTCHA (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart", trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and Nicholas J. Hopper of Carnegie Mellon University, and John Langford of IBM. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human, a CAPTCHA is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test. This term, however, is ambiguous because it could also mean a Turing test in which the participants are both attempting to prove they are the computer. So basically the main purpose is to stop hackers, and spammers OR automated computers (AKA: bots) from easily joining multiple times to a website or entering a website to gain access easier. This feature is called: CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA (an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”, trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, and Nicholas J. Hopper of Carnegie Mellon University, and John Langford of IBM. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters of a distorted image, sometimes with the addition of an obscured sequence of letters or digits that appears on the screen. Because the test is administered by a computer, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is administered by a human, a CAPTCHA is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test. This term, however, is ambiguous because it could also mean a Turing test in which the participants are both attempting to prove they are the computer. So basically the main purpose is to stop hackers, and spammers OR automated computers (AKA: bots) from easily joining multiple times to a website or entering a website to gain access easier.

]]> http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7005 karen Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:37 +0000 http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7005 it keeps away hackers apparantly it keeps away hackers apparantly

]]> http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7006 xx_muggl Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:37 +0000 http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7006 It keeps automatic programs from signing in or up to keep out hackers. It keeps automatic programs from signing in or up to keep out hackers.

]]> http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7007 n9flyboy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:11:37 +0000 http://verifiedwebsite.net/what-is-up-with-those-security-code-things-that-are-always-funny-looking-letters-and-numbers/#comment-7007 its a tool to eliminate people like you from participating... its a tool to eliminate people like you from participating…

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