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September 01 2008
Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy
"The bottom line - is text based CAPTCHA dead? It’s definitely in pain thanks to evil marketers recruiting low-waged Indian data processing workers, who according to some of the statistics obtained, earn over ten times more while solving CAPTCHAs, than through their legitimate data processing jobs."
My comment: I always love when weird medieval concepts, such as human labor, win over brilliant contemporary "high" tech. In fact, the very idea of manual labor is so beyond the imaginable that it actually frightens some people. In their view, labor is Economic Terrorism.
