We all know and despise those torturous site authentication schemes that ask you to identify a series of numbers and letters floating in a swirling morass o’ crap. These are used so that spambots can’t get in. But soon enough, the bots solve the puzzle and we meatbots are subjected to an even gnarlier-looking visual lock to pick. There HAS to be a better, and there is: Kittens!
An enterprising chap named Oli Warner discovered that, while we humans have no trouble picking pics of furry little kittens out of groups of other similarly cute and furry critters (mice, bunnies, puppies), computers do. The result is KittenAuth. Implementers of this authentication scheme don’t HAVE to use kitties, but c’mon, look at that face! Why wouldn’t you?
[Via The Inquirer]