From a security perspective knowing that you are human is invaluable. In the real world, you protect your house by installing a security system that monitors human motion and you install deadbolts that stop people from opening the door. Now imagine how you would protect your home if the attacker was not a human. What would you do? Install a finger print scanner that verifies an attempt to enter is being made by someone with a pulse?

Today the virtual world faces tremendous problems knowing whether a user is human or not. The lock on the “front door” to your virtual house is almost always user name & password. Since computers can “type,” they can fill out your user name and password (and challenge questions, “what’s your dog’s maiden name?”) and then press submit. Thus unlocking and opening your front door. Since websites have extremely limited ways to determine whether or not the person requesting access is a human or not, they really can’t protect what you keep in your house. Your virtual house might be your online bank account, brokerage account, email, health records, personal data stored on social networks, etc… All sitting behind a door that virtually no websites are capable of protecting. Care to imagine who could walk right in?

Using an authentication method like Vidoop, site owners have the power to not only confirm that the right human is logging in, but also protect the data in their users houses.