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

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:43:32 +0300
From: "Razi Shaban" <razishaban@...il.com>
To: "Paul Schmehl" <pschmehl_lists_nada@...rr.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 
	Inside India’s CAPTCHA Solving Economy

>
>  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.

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