[UCIMC-Tech] Removed user login captcha...

[Stuart Levy]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:51:09AM -0600, dan blah wrote:
> This is redundant... you need to pass a captcha to create an account
> before you can login thus you shouldnt have to do yet another captcha
> to log in after already proving you are human.  One might argue that
> the login captcha could prevent brute force attacks at which I would
> counter those whose accounts get brute forced tell us which users are
> using shitty passwords.
> 
> That login captcha drives me fucking nuts, so I removed it.  If this
> is a problem please present your case or if you have permissions add
> it back and I will smite you in  some way!

Thank you!

It drove me nuts too.  I'd have to go through about 8 captcha attempts
to get one login -- even when the text was clearly recognizable characters,
it would be rejected.