Word to Spammers: Bite Me

Sometimes you get to serve your customers and at the same time serve humanity. As part of our security effort for user registration we are implementing reCaptcha from Carnegie Mellon University.

This is a commonly seen test for being a human, where you type in some text from a graphic that cannot be read by spam software looking for victims.It is not the only service available that does this, but what makes reCaptcha notable, aside from being a free service, is that each time it is used, it helps to digitize the text of books. As in archiving human knowledge. Now that’s cool.

For more information, check out the reCaptcha site.

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