How much is the work that <a href="http://recaptcha.net/" rel="nofollow">http://recaptcha.net/</a> 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.
Nobody 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.
Free market economy?<p>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.<p>Please prove me wrong, as this is interesting.<p>Jer
I'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.<p>Maybe they could flip this into a legit boutique business.
Indians never fail to stop impressing me. This is an awesome hack available to the email spammers.<p>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).<p>This can be a lucrative business in the 3rd world countries.