Re:Porn in Exchange for Captcha Work
by altay on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @12:52AM
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He also talks about a lot of other stuff which is pretty damn mind-blowing.
Folks that haven't watched this talk... you should. It really got me thinking in new ways. There's a reason why von Ahn won a MacArthur ("Genius") Grant for his Human Computation work.
Re:Porn in Exchange for Captcha Work
by mynameishere on Monday October 29, 2007 @10:41PM
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This is well known.
Hmm. It would be nice if someone released a benevolent trojan that basically informed everybody that infinite porno is available via bittorrent. All in all, it would be nice to close down the manufacturing end of that business...
He talks about how spammers use porn sites to correctly input captchas back in July of 2006.
Folks that haven't watched this talk... you should. It really got me thinking in new ways. There's a reason why von Ahn won a MacArthur ("Genius") Grant for his Human Computation work.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=71337
Hmm. It would be nice if someone released a benevolent trojan that basically informed everybody that infinite porno is available via bittorrent. All in all, it would be nice to close down the manufacturing end of that business...