I know the professor who created CAPTCHAs fairly well (did research with him) and I can say that these captcha's are missing the point of captcha's. The hard t

I know the professor who created CAPTCHAs fairly well (did research with him) and I can say that these captcha's are missing the point of captcha's. The hard to read word is there to prevent spammers. With easy to read words, you have a limited number of words per a page. In the end, the probability that a program randomly guessing the assortment of words (O(n^2) combinations if we assume order) is actually quite high.