Re: Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solving Economy

[Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists () tx rr com>]

--On August 31, 2008 2:43:32 AM +0300 Razi Shaban <razishaban () gmail com> 
wrote:

> >  If nothing else, CAPTCHA is increasing the bad guys' costs of doing
> > business, and that's a good thing.
>
> By two dollars per thousand email addresses. Yahoo allows 100 emails
> per hour. That means that they're spending two dollars to send
> 2,400,000 emails per day.
>
> Sounds pretty expensive to me.

Try reading.  I never said it made it expensive.  I said it *increased* 
their cost of doing business.  Every penny they spend on de-CAPTCHA is one 
less penny in their pockets.

Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already
obvious, my opinions are my own
and not those of my employer.
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