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

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Message-ID: <48BAF9F0.8010902@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:07:12 -0400
From: Thedjatclubrock <tdjacr.wiki@...il.com>
CC: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 
 Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy

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Razi Shaban wrote:
> 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/
>>         GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5  0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F
>>
>>                       It is the mind that moves
>>
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I really do not believe this is an appropriate topic of discussion, it
has nothing to do with the mainstream Full-Disclosure topic, IMHO.
- --TheDJACR
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