The weekly (not technically) list – 2012 W3

Busy week. I’ve only had time to read one article, and I read it on the wrong week. But it’s an inte­re­s­ting article. The notion of auto­ma­ting humans as cheap labour is pro­ven to be quite a suc­cess­ful endeavor.

Breaking CAPTCHA with auto­ma­ted humans
Troy Hunter

So CAPTCHA pre­vents all this, right? Only humans can break the code and com­plete these signup pro­ces­ses, right? But what if we could auto­mate the humans; I mean what if we could take CAPTCHAs and solve them at such a rate that these regi­stra­tion pro­ces­ses could be easily auto­ma­ted? Well it turns out you can and it will only cost you a couple of bucks.