What's next?

We live in a world overrun with passwords, ID's, user names all purporting to "protect" our identities. All safe, all secure, all requiring frequent change. Omnipotent! 

But, don't write them anywhere! They mustn't be easily discovered or figured out. So you have to remember them. Now, I don't know about you, but my memory is more die,die,die than didactic. 

And now to this we add the "eye test on acid" block. A group of numerals and letters blended fuzzily together for us to copy exactly if we ever want to see the item we just spent half an hour searching for. 

All of these security devices have one thing in common. Any half-baked hacker can get past them on their way to personal nirvana!

Of course you could take cash and actually go to the store...wouldn't that confuse them all? You could call it a modern "exercise" program. Rationalization rules!