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POPSSpammers are hiring firms to defeat CAPTCHA's You send the firm the CAPTCHA's and a real person solves it and send it back to the customer. Apparently the employee solving the puzzle only gets paid if the puzzle is: Solved correctly Solved within 60 seconds (even though the rule is under 20 seconds) The firm charges $1 for every 1,000 CAPTCHA's that you send. They also sell Gmail and Yahoo mail accounts in bulk
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POPS CAPTCHA Security Broken According to a blog post by a Russian security researcher the CAPTCHA system used by Yahoo! may have been compromised.
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POPSStrippers seduce humans in order to circumvent CAPTCHA This is a great example of a problem that is too difficult for current AI methods and depends on "real" intelligence to solve. Humans are plugged into the workflow to solve the problem just as you'd add another service to a pipeline. The innovative spirit is alive and well with spammers.
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POPSMaking humans more computer Last month's news... but still interesting; I like the twist: Von Anh turns the problem of making computers more human, into making humans more like computer. As long as it's entertaining, humans will do drone-like activities all day long, and collectively beat the biggest computer around...
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POPSreCAPTCHA - Digitizing Books One Word at a Time "But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct."
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POPSget 10,000 targetted myspace friends I am heavily into myspace marketing , but purchasing pricey softwares for friend add is strict "no-no" for me. I stumbled upon this site , which gives you targetted 10l friends for insanely low price, awesome stuff