On Mon, 3 Jan 2012, John Levine wrote: > Scalping can be very profitable, with markups of $100 per ticket not > unsusual, so if I were a scalper, I'd have a network of web proxies, > to make it hard to tell that they're all me, a farm of human CAPTCHA > breakers in Asia who cost maybe 5c per CAPTCHA, [[...]]
According to http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/technology/26captcha.html?hpw the going rate for paying humans to break CAPTCHAs is around $1 per 1000 CAPTCHAS, i.e., around 0.1 cent per CAPTCHA. -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu> Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -- quote by Freire / poster by Oxfam _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
