Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans

Re:Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans by ghshephard on Monday January 23, 2012 @05:59AM (#3499910)

Ideal approach to running one of these services is to front a site that actually uses Captchas, ideally in significant volume, and then just _pass through_ the captchas being sent by others needing them to be solved.

Say you run a site that has 1000 users/minute authenticating, that means you actually have 1000/captchas/minute being solved - may as well sell those users (unwittingly performed) time.

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Re:Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans by samwillis on Monday January 23, 2012 @07:50AM (#3500162)

I have heard of people doing exactly this with pornography websites...

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Re:Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans by dspillett on Monday January 23, 2012 @09:33AM (#3500457)

I've never seen a real example of this (having asked many times when people have mentioned it), it is one of those ideas that on first though everyone things must be real.

The problem with that scheme is that you need to create or curate enough content to make it work and somehow make the people who might want that content aware that you can give it to them, and that is a lot more hassle and expensive than paying some impoverished 3rd world farmer to parse the captchas.

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Re:Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans by pavel_lishin on Monday January 23, 2012 @11:50AM (#3501029)

> I've never seen a real example of this

Are you sure?

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Re:Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans by dspillett on Monday January 23, 2012 @02:14PM (#3501639)

Can you name one real documented example of it?

If not then I stand by my assertion that it does not exist as the time and hassle (and potentially expense) of creating/curating the content required is simply not worth the effort when automated code can do much of the work and slave labour in "3rd world" countries can do the rest cheaply enough.

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