[phaus]

No one is claiming anything other than the fact that the captcha is really horrible.

That being said, your defense of the site makes it sound even worse. Not only is the captcha horrible, but it took them almost all the way until 2014 to even implement one.

It is quite possible to have exceptionally good engineering chops and still be completely clueless when it comes to security.

I hope that the rest of the code powering this $100 million annual eCommerce traffic isn't as fundamentally flawed from a security aspect.