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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
