Aug 20 2010
What are Spammers Doing Now?
How Spammers Use Low-cost Labor to Solve CAPTCHAS
Workers in Russia, Southeast Asia, and China are paid a pittance to solve millions of CAPTCHAS.
What can only be described as an epic new analysis by a cadre of researchers at UC San Diego has uncovered the seedy underbelly of a sophisticated, highly automated, world-wide network of services that help email, blog and forum spammers get past the CAPTCHAS that are designed to keep them out.
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