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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.