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January 9, 2012 03:53 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GkRQwAnYN_A/virtual-sweatshops-versus-capt.html
Virtual sweatshops versus CAPTCHAs
KolotiBablo, a Russian service, pays workers in China, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam to crack CAPTCHAs -- it's a favorite of industrial scale spammers. This company's fortunes represent an interesting economic indicator of the relative cost of labor (plus Internet access and junk PCs) in the poorest countries in the world, versus skilled programmer labor to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GkRQwAnYN_A/virtual-sweatshops-versus-capt.html
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