{"id":17329,"date":"2022-01-04T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=17329"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T20:50:15","slug":"skype-forces-new-users-to-solve-complex-captcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/skype-forces-new-users-to-solve-complex-captcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype Forces New Users To Solve Complex Captcha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New users have difficulty signing in to Microsoft Skype after being asked ten times to solve a complex puzzle before they could sign in. After downloading Skype to their device, users are asked to either sign in with an existing Microsoft account or sign up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who chose to sign up for a new Microsoft account through the Skype application, Skype presents a complicated captcha that has left many frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The captcha in question requires the user to keep rotating through an image with a sphere containing arrows pointed in random directions until there are &#8220;exactly 2 arrows&#8221; left pointing directly upwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it is surprising that signing up for a Microsoft Account directly through Microsoft&#8217;s website comes with a much simpler captcha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Reddit user commented: &#8216;I had the same problem a few weeks ago and almost threw my computer out the window in frustration.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/microsoft-skype-makes-you-solve-a-complex-captcha-10-times-to-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in BleepingComputer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users are having trouble signing in to Skype after being asked to solve a puzzle before they can sign in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-17329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17329"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17356,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17329\/revisions\/17356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}