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Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy
- JeremyChase 18y agoFree market economy? Is this really serious? I googled it and didn't turn much up. I think this may be more paranoia than reality at this point. Please prove me wrong, as this is interesting. Jer
- ewanmcteagle 18y agoHow much is the work that http://recaptcha.net/ http://recaptcha.net/ is doing worth? Not only would it keep some of these people busy breaking useful captchas but we could get some good books digitized out of it. $1.25/1000 ? You could get a book digitized for $100 easy.
- noor420 18y agoIndians never fail to stop impressing me. This is an awesome hack available to the email spammers. They can create millions of fake accounts(email for e.g.) per months and pass them over to the spammers that spam via their huge botnets(millions of infected windows machines). This can be a lucrative business in the 3rd world countries.
- azharcs 18y agoNobody can beat a Mechanical Turk. They are smarter than machines and cheaper than one. So i think when designing next generation security, other than bots, even low-wage workers will be taken into consideration.
- ScottWhigham 18y agotada: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazons_mechanical_turk_used_for_fraud.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazons_mechanical_turk...
- iigs 18y agoI'd consider paying an "account creation service" a dollar to create a single (legit) account for me at some web sites. Some CAPTCHAs are just awful. Maybe they could flip this into a legit boutique business.