Re: [Full-disclosure] Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solving Economy

[n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com>]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists () tx rr com> wrote:
> --On August 30, 2008 1:57:32 PM -0700 coderman <coderman () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Dancho Danchev
> > <dancho.danchev () gmail com> wrote:
> > > ... Indian workers breaking MySpace and Google
> > > CAPTCHAs,
> >
> > OH MY GOD SIR
> >
> > someone should make this illegal!!!
> >
> > (then CAPTCHA would be secure...)
> >
> >
> > *cough*
>
> If nothing else, CAPTCHA is increasing the bad guys' costs of doing
> business, and that's a good thing.

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.

All the best,

n3td3v

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