Quad Lasers

You know when you try to sign up for some sort of service online, and get asked to read a bunch of swirly alphanumeric characters and copy them into a text box in order to prove that you’re a human and not some automated net bot? Well, that is what’s known as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), and while it may be a necessary evil in today’s spam-infested online world, there’s no reason that it should be limited to mildly indecipherable words set against butt-ugly backgrounds.

It is with this in mind that Oli Warner developed KittenAuth Test, the cute animal based verification system. The idea is that in order to be considered sufficiently ‘human’ to be granted permission to perform some hypothetical task, you have to first pick out three kittens from a selection of assorted images of fluffy animals - once you have proven your knowledge of all things feline you can be on your merry way, signing up for that SuperBonerDaddy69@hotmail.com email address or leaving anonymous hate-filled comments on random blogs.

n.b. Apologies if you are the owner of the email address SuperBonerDaddy69@hotmail.com, but I picked it feeling safe in the knowledge that nobody could be sufficiently twattish as to actually have an email address like that, although I suppose it does take all sorts…