On 01/03/2012 04:08 AM, John Levine wrote: > 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, a large set of > employees, friends, and relatives who will let me use their names and > credit cards (for a small commission) and scripts that blast through > Ticketmaster's web pages as fast as they can, so they can buy the > tickets the moment they go on sale, before real humans can.
That's overstating the costs of captcha solving by several orders of magnitude: $1.39 per 1000 captchas from http://www.deathbycaptcha.com/ $0.7-$1 per 1000 captchas from http://antigate.com/ $2 (in 2009) for 1000 captchas from http://www.decaptcher.com/ (defunct) $7 for 1000 captchas from http://www.decaptcher2.com/ This is just from their websites and forums, so I can not vouch for the quality of their service. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
