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Will Solve Captcha for Money?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i've-done-worse-for-less dept.

alx_lo writes "Captchas are a nice idea to protect your blog or guestbook from being spammed by robots. But what good is this protection when you can hire "data entry specialists" to solve captchas for $0.60 per hour for 50 hours a week? Anyone here who can think up a solution that does not include drastically changing the global economy? How about captchas that require cultural background knowledge to solve?"

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  1. Comment spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The amount of obvious comment spam in that posting is delightfully ironic.