Re: Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy

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Razi Shaban wrote:
> No, thank you for emailing us twice.
>
> Really.
>
>
> --
> Razi
>
> On 8/31/08, Raj Mathur <raju () kandalaya org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 31 Aug 2008, n3td3v wrote:
> >
> > > At least its giving hundreds of thousands of poor indians employment,
> >  > by paying them to manually create internet accounts for bot net
> >  > herders to use. I don't know if thats what the Dancho Danchev blog
> >  > post is about because I refuse to read anything by him or Zdnet. This
> >  > activity of the bad guys employing poor internet users from
> >  > developing countries isn't new. The bad guys, they target the folks
> >  > in the developing countries to spend all day signing up web accounts
> >  > manually, as they don't need to pay them an awful lot of money to do
> >  > it, and they don't need to care about CAPTCHAs, because the poor
> >  > citizens of the developing countries are entering the legitimate
> >  > CAPTCHA word manually on behalf of the bad guys. There is a whole
> >  > industry for it out there, and the folks in the developing countries
> >  > don't mind helping out because they don't have much money and are
> >  > pretty desperate, and to be honest, they don't actually know a lot of
> >  > the time the scale of the operation they are getting involved in but
> >  > they probably don't really care.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for the extremely patronising and ill-informed post.
> >
> >  I'd suggest the next time you don't have a clue about a region you keep
> >  your mouth shut and be thought an idiot, rather than open it and be
> >  confirmed as one.
> >
> >  -- Raju
> >  --
> >  Raj Mathur                raju () kandalaya org       http://kandalaya.org/
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> >                       It is the mind that moves
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