Slashdot (what would Lou Dobbs say?):
"Captchas are a nice idea to protect your blog or guestbook from being spammed by robots. But what good is this protection when you can hire "data entry specialists" to solve captchas for $0.60 per hour for 50 hours a week? Anyone here who can think up a solution that does not include drastically changing the global economy? How about captchas that require cultural background knowledge to solve?"
Who won the world series in 1973?
Oakland As. First google result for "http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=who+won+the+world+series+in+1973&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"
Posted by: Adam Shostack | September 06, 2006 at 10:56 AM
$0.60 per hour is enough to destroy your average spammer's economic model.
Most likely, putting a price like $0.01 on every email delivery would put most email spammers out of business as well.
Posted by: denis bider | April 27, 2007 at 06:56 PM