OT: captchas

[Oren Beck]

Actually a more complex to manage but could be more
effective hack may be possible. A "human decoding farm"
Basic concept is the "signature" of a captchas type
challenge is routed to a human - who reads and
  decodes it- types it in and is instantly rewarded by...
The next captcha to decode. rinse lather repeat for
8 hours or more a day. But such labor gets cheap .
After all when wal-mart self checkouts merchandise
made in Bangladesh and stocked by robots we ALL
may wind up being captcha decoders for a spam haus.

Don't laugh- some high yield cybercrashings
for financially rewarding data can pay .25 each hit
At one "hit" per 10 min decoding session your
resident of Calcutta  earns his $1.50 hourly
the hard way.

Oren


ObSciFi-Wolfsbane by  Frederik Pohl and C.M Kornbluth.
Briefly carries the concept of humans as components
a bit farther. DejaVu of the Matrix movies but
much better executed.