Sony CAPTCHA Fail

[Tiberius]

Sony's CAPTCHA "images" are full of fail.

http://cryptogasm.com/2011/07/sony-captcha-fail/

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[Welsh cake]

I wish I thought of previewing the site's source code myself.

With regards to image verification, why not just use images i.e. cake, unicorns and so on to stump the spambots rather than relying on distorted text?

[Tiberius]

With regards to image verification, why not just use images i.e. cake, unicorns and so on to stump the spambots rather than relying on distorted text?

I take it that you mean the site has a large database of different images, and the user has to identify which object is in the given image?

The main problem with that ideas is that it requires a large database of pre-generated images, which need a large amount of storage. You can't generate images on-the-fly since they are supposed to be specific objects. With text, you can generate random strings quite easily, and then use image libraries to convert the text string to an image.