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This is unhelpful to Sony’s tarnished security reputation

Posted at 7:15 pm on July 12, 2011 / tagged: , , / comments closed

Via Googler Andrew Hintz comes an embarrassing revelation for Sony, where their developers apparently are embedding CAPTCHAs in HTML and using CSS to distort them. While I generally hate CAPTCHAs (especially since most of them have been broken for a long time, now), this is an incredibly foolish and hilarious mistake and, given recent events, par for the course.

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