There should be many safeguards in place to prevent things like this from happening, but yet you hear about it happening more than you would like and more than what is acceptable (which is never) - data breaches. In this case, simply encrypting the data on said tapes would have provided some level of protection [...]

I added a captcha plugin for my blog and it has pretty much eliminated the random spamming. However, take a look at this and tell me what purpose this serves:

Now it’s a DOS. Great. It’s almost as bad as this one.
Why does it have to be text? Why can’t a captcha be made using random [...]