Targeting Spam > Will an Army of Captcha-Solvers Be Unleashed on Web 2.0
[One Laptop Per Child News] But he said that the one thing that did give him pause was the possibility that rival blog spammers might start paying people in developing countries to fill in captchas: they could always use a bit of western cash, would have the spare time and, increasingly, cheap internet connections to be able to do such tedious (but paid) work.Feel that fear too? The horror in imagining a millions-strong army of OLPC-enabled captcha-solvers unleashed on Web 2.0, filling blog comments with spam that no automated filter could stop.
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- ChurchTechBlogs.com: ll still gaze at them, perplexed. In the end, Im not sure why I have such a problem reading distorted, distressed, dissolved text in a swirly, hatchy, tie-dyed box. I just hope my optometrist doesnt start using them on the exam. CAPTCHA on Wikipedia A good example of a bad CAPTCHA from Sean Technorati Tags: captcha, read, spam, usability, interaction, accessibility Posted in David Russell | Comments Off (via Cosmos)
David Russell: Nothing against my peeps who use this system in an attempt to thwart our friends the spammers. (No, spammers aren’t really my friends.) I mean, I know comment spam is tough and I’ve heard many people say that CAPTCHA absolutely solved their spam issues. (via Cosmos)
Not an Official WordPress Weblog at Wordpress Blog.org: I’m pretty sure I’m not going to go around and rework it for the older blogs, but it really depends on how well mine upgrade to 2.1. If the plugins I need for other aspects of the site, such as optimal title and google sitemap, continue to work on 2.1 then most likely I won’t make it backwards compatible. (via Cosmos)
[Olpcnews.com] One Laptop Per Child News: The horror in imagining a millions-strong army of OLPC-enabled captcha-solvers unleashed on Web 2.0, filling blog comments with spam that no automated filter could stop.
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