Let’s analyze the shady data processing economy of India, discuss exclusive photos of Indian workers breaking MySpace and Google CAPTCHAs, and take a tour inside the web applications of several Bangladesh based franchises, whose team of almost 1,000 international workers is actively soliciting deals for breaking Craigslist, Gmail, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook’s CAPTCHA, promising to deliver 250k solved CAPTCHAs per day on a “$2 for a 1000 solved CAPTCHAs” rate.
drilldown of spam mail originating from major bot nets
a web user interface to spamassassin
Once again, I'm wondering about my daily spam. Today, I've received one of this spam mails containing little more than an image. However, the image is somewhat alienated as it is typical for captchas. Why would someone do this? OCRing your mails? Stupid