Why CAPTCHA’s suck
Posted by Stephan onFor over a month I’ve had an article with this title in my drafts. One-third finished, but I’ve been planning to finish it for a while. Hovewer, today I came across the nth article with the same bottom line, so I’ve decided not to write the article anymore. Instead I’ll just link to some other interesting articles about why CAPTCHA sucks. Here they are:
- Death to CAPTCHA’s (Tim Kadlec, January 2011)
- Why You Should Stop Using CAPTCHAs (Oskar Smith, November 2010)
- We All Agree CAPTCHA Sucks (Jonah Stein, April 2010)
- Captcha Sucks But I’m Lazy So it’s Your Problem (Curtis McHale, January 2010)
And a comic to top it off:

Awesome comic. Printed it off and hung it up at work next to my “Exploits of a Mom” database sanitation comic http://xkcd.com/327/
Heh yeah, gotta love XKCD