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Let me reexplain the threat model that I see. Consuming one token bypasses the need to solve one CAPTCHA. Now you have heard about people being hired to solve
by mrb 10y ago
Let me reexplain the threat model that I see.
Consuming one token bypasses the need to solve one CAPTCHA. Now you have heard about people being hired to solve CAPTCHAs, right? Well with these tokens, every time a human solves one CAPTCHA and obtains 100 tokens, it's as if he helped a robot bypass 100 CAPTCHAs.
Other example: say a CAPTCHA system is so good that only 0.1% of its challenges can be solved by a robot. With these tokens, if 100 are signed per solved CAPTCHA, then it's as if the robot could solve 10% of them. A 100x improvement.