W B Hacker wrote:

> Going forward with a new Webmail client, we're looking at 'also' having the 
> Webmail user select from a randomly-positioned graphic - one among several - 
> with a mouse-click - as has been used by some of the financial services 
> giants.
> Pity some of those paid less rigourous attention to the rest of their 'core' 
> business (Countrywide).
> 
> The html has to use a call for the graphic that is essentially 'one time' 
> coded, 
> whilst the back-end relates the choice  - 'out of sight' - to the specific 
> user 
> and no other. Fortunately, our back-end for auth is PostgreSQL, so the 
> flexibility is already there.

That sounds like the "select the picture" section on the signup form for 
https://www.localphone.com/register

I don't get those things. They're meant to stop automated machines from 
signing up, yet in reality all they do is make the automated machine 
make on average three HTTP requests rather than one, in order to sign 
up. Completely useless.

-- 
Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer
Cardwell IT Ltd. (UK Reg'd Company #06920226) http://cardwellit.com/

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