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website security with cute widdle kittens

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We've all seen websites with CAPTCHAs -- those image boxes with a random collection of squiggly letters and numbers, trying to keep bots from spamming websites or prevent brute-force attacks. There are variations, but the idea is the same. Now MS Research has entered the mix with Asirra. Instead of using squiggly letters, they use a collection of pictures of homeless cats and dogs from PetFinder.com. If one of them catches your eye, there's an 'adopt me!' link so that you can learn how to do so.

This is in beta, so you can now have your own security provided by cute widdle kittens! I'm going to have a talk with my two cats (I just adopted a second cat, a flamepoint Balinese, a couple of weeks ago) to tell them that they're going to have to learn more about security so that they can keep my home server secure.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2007
    This is a plain rip off of "Kitten Auth", which is at least a year old. Did MS buy up this guy? http://www.kittenauth.com/ I love kittens. I have a collection of 250 images of the little critters. Are there any plans to offer kitten only goodness? Andrew

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2007
    KittenAuth is addressed in their FAQ: http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/FAQ.aspx I assume you're familiar with the random kitten generator? http://www.randomkittengenerator.com/

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2007
    Certainly has the 'awww...' factor, but usability and accessiblility? Browsing on a PDA/Smartphone/latest device with images off and having to hit "get image" on every one that hasn't loaded because one browses with images off to save bandwidth. "Hooray, I've found a cat and I can post a blog entry"...but my GPRS bill has gone up by 10 GBP.

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
    hey... what do you use to power your blog? it looks simple and easy... is it a program? web-based? iHate my blog

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
    All blogs on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) are powered by Community Server.  To use it, you'd have to have it installed on a server somewhere, and I have no idea if it's installable on a Mac.   From a user perspective, this is okay but not perfect.  My biggest complaint is that it doesn't fully support Safari, so I have to use Firefox to write my posts.  Safari is my browser of choice because it respects the OS network settings, whereas Firefox requires me to have to change them manually.   I've got a personal blog running on my server (a Mac Mini) at home.  That's running WordPress.  They've got a free web-based version of it, too.  www.wordpress.com

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
    thank you so much! what is your personal blog/ is the WordPress (not web-based) difficult to use? Thanks again! rs

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2007
    I haven't used WP nearly as much as I have this.  For the little that I have, it's been fine.  I'm not sure if I like its tagging, but that's a minor complaint.