security codes/number used on websites for verification, is it just me, or

[bufffbison]

are some of those really difficult to read? ....i'm guessing ya guys know what im talking about.. but most websites like paypal, ebay, yahoo, and bunch of others make you enter a series of letters/numbers for security verification.... i find those to be extremely hard to figure out what the damn letters/numbers are. i had to do it on my paypal account earlier today, and b/c i couldn't get it right with 5 attempts, my account was locked until i verified it by calling paypal. its ridiculous!!! i just wish they make the letters/numbers easier to read or just do away with them. ERRR... umm yeah, i told them that too.

[Omphaloskepsis]

1. It's called a captcha...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

Usually I just refresh the page if I can't read what it says. Eventually you get one you can.