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

2008-08-31 Thread Razi Shaban
No, thank you for emailing us twice. Really. -- Razi On 8/31/08, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[Full-disclosure] Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solvi ng Economy

2008-08-30 Thread Dancho Danchev
Hello, The following article aims to expose a booming CAPTCHA solving economy in India, employing thousands of legitimate data processing workers, whose business model is already being abused by cybercriminals paying pocket money for using it : Let's analyze the shady data processing economy of

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

2008-08-30 Thread coderman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Dancho Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Indian workers breaking MySpace and Google CAPTCHAs, OH MY GOD SIR someone should make this illegal!!! (then CAPTCHA would be secure...) *cough* ___ Full-Disclosure - We

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

2008-08-30 Thread Razi Shaban
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.

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

2008-08-30 Thread n3td3v
I must stress this isn't breaking news, its been going on for years... All the best, n3td3v https://groups.google.com/group/n3td3v ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and

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

2008-08-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:51:50 BST, n3td3v said: 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. OK, so you don't know if what we're talking about is what you're talking about, you refuse to find out, but you