THE "CAPTCHA" QUESTIONS...

Captchas. What in the hell are they? We've all  seem them. Whenever we go to post on FB, it's there, and it always makes us wonder: "What is this, really? Are we sending secret codes to Russia? Are we helping to decode a classic piece of literature?" The questions in our minds never cease. Finally, after completing the captcha puzzle for the umpteenth time, we decided to look it up. Pop the trunk for details...

Via Captcha.net:

CAPTCHA: Telling Humans and Computers Apart Automatically

	A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. For example, humans can read distorted text as the one shown below, but cVia urrent computer programs can't:

Okay, whyyyy are we protecting ourselves from computers/robots/machines now??? Scary!


Via thatagency.com:

Captcha is a method of fooling the spam bots so they won’t fill out forms, gain access to sensitive locations of a site, etc. by using a visual image instead of a password or readable text access point.

NY Times Wrote about too but we still don't trust it. . .


Thoughts???