Security words

[parkie]

I've been onto a site tonight just to enter a competition and it finished up with me having to copy two words into a 'box' for security measures.
You know the type I mean?
The first word makes no sense at all and takes half an hour to unravel and the second one is a straightforward one like 'jump' or something similar.
I've often come across these before and on occasions have had to repeat the squiggly word because I've kept getting it wrong, but cannot see the logic behind them apart from proving you are able to go cross-eyed trying to decipher the first word and are intelligent enough to read the second.

[Barmaid]

It's to ensure you are a real person and not a spamming website. The "captcha" requires human intervention. I really struggle with them - although many now have an option where you can listen to the words and then type them in.

They are often not words at all, just random letters and numbers, that's why it is so difficult to make sense of them.

[marval]

I also struggle with them

[factor-fiction]

I often struggle with these capcha codes.

[parkie]

Thanks all of you. I've often wondered. I'm pleased to know I'm not alone as well.

[marval]

You are definitely not alone.