March 30, 2008
Russian serfs paid $3 a day to break CAPTCHAs | The Register: "Brad Taylor, a Google software engineer, said internal evidence suggests that low-paid laborers in third-world countries (rather than compromised PCs) are being used to register accounts that are subsequently used to send spam.
'You can see it is clearly done by humans,' Taylor told the New York Times . 'There are patterns in the rate we find bogus accounts, like at night time and when people get off work' in particular locations around the world."
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