full-disclosure - Re: Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solving Economy

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:10:59 +0300
From: "Razi Shaban" <razishaban@...il.com>
To: raju@...dalaya.org
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 
	Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solving Economy

No, thank you for emailing us twice.

Really.


--
Razi

On 8/31/08, Raj Mathur <raju@...dalaya.org> 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 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                raju@...dalaya.org       http://kandalaya.org/
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