A security
test to determine whether or not the user is human. This will ensure that only human visitors will actually submit the form,
and not spamming bots that are browsing the web from site to site and submit spam where they can. It is well known that programmers
can do programs for many jobs, including visiting a large amount of sites on the Internet by following links from page to
page and collect emails listed on websites, submit contact forms, or even trying to break passwords by trying to login over
and over again with computer generated passwords.
Fortunately, it is impossible for a non-human ( ex. computer program
) to extract a word or a combination of letters and numbers from an image, if the letters and numbers are not all of the same
size and of similar font. This is why, the Image Verification security method ensures that only people actually can submit
a form.
As probably you've already noticed I'm making changes, uploading more contents and linking to other
wonderful Spanish websites, very usefull for your adquisition of the Spanish language. I hope you'll like it!
