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Kittenauth - The Cute Security Solution

If you have been reading this blog for some time, you may remember that after I wrote an article about KittenAuth - a security product to test if you are human or not.

Subsequently, the PassFaces blog picked up my article - which is fine.

Leeching Images

Unfortunately, they did not copy the image to their server, but rather linked directly to the copy I am hosting here - so their web page gained the benefit of the service I am paying for, but without my permission.

I had a go at them here, and replaced the cute kitten picture with the one below.

Apology

This post is to acknowledge that I have had an apology from Andrew Ryan:

Sadly, this has only just been brought to my attention. As one of the moderators of the Passfaces blog I should have seen this sooner.

This “leeching” was not intentional on the part of my fellow blogger who created this post but simply a lack of understanding of what the Wordpress “insert image” button actually did. He thought he was taking a copy of the image and inserting that into our blog (although this might also be considered a dubious practice without asking permission). When you go through this process without inspecting the HTML you can understand how this misunderstanding might happen.

I have amended the post to reference your permalink instead of the image and will ensure that our blog is well behaved in future. Sorry for the offense that this has caused.

I am happy to acknowledge the apology, and thank-you for taking the trouble to reply Andrew.

A Footnote - Don’t Retaliate TOO Strongly

My response could have been deeply offensive - for example by replacing the image with something pornographic - but that would have made any polite contact impossible.

Perhaps one of the key blogging skills is to know how to poke people in the eye without blinding them.