Crackin CAPTCHA’S, Bustin’ Kneecaps
Most of us know what a CAPTCHA is. It’s that obnoxious little squiggly set of characters you need to type before a website allows you to do something (like posting a comment, buying something etc.). These CAPTCHA’s are used to keep automated programs from executing sets of commands. For a while, life was good. Automated systems could actually use character recognition to decipher the images automatically, rendering CAPTCHA’s useless for those advanced enough to come up with such a system. When ReCAPTCHA was released, life changed.
ReCaptcha is more then just a standard CAPTCHA system. The characters are crazier, their are math equations, it can track and ban IP’s, among a sleuth of other features to stop automated programs from cracking them. The only problem is that these are even easier to crack. Just Hire Indians!
$2/ 1000 captchas? I honestly feel sorry for those workers. I would seriously go crazy if I had to do that work.
I would rather could use my team for doing this job