On 17-Jan-07, at 2:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Right. So I find a flaw in the lock of your car door which lets me
open
the door and hotwire your car. I hope you dont find fault with me
when
I exploit it?
Perhaps the solution then is to make their activity illegal?
Lots of people are employed in the BPO sector to perform cheque
processing, wherein they're shown an image of a number on a cheque
and the computer's guess of what the number is, to which they respond
with their guess. The same image is shown to someone else, and if the
answers match, it's accepted. If not, it goes to a third person, and
so on. These folks may as well be doing captcha processing. They're
little difference as far as the work is concerned, and it's unfair to
attack their enterprise on moral grounds when they're operating in a
legal framework. Maybe it should be made illegal for them to receive
such work.
Though it'd be curious to see a law that outlaws answering someone
else's captchas.
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
