Spammers Paying Pennies to CAPTCHA Crackers in Far Away Lands
A few months ago, we told you about a growing wave of spammers who had begun outsourcing their CAPTCHA-solving duties to low-wage workers in developing countries. Now, a recently published study from UC San Diego has revealed just how insidious and exploitative this underground market really is. In the paper (PDF), which was presented at the recent USENIX Computer Symposium, researchers found that ...
All the news that's fit to print may someday be free, according to a new poll from Zogby International. The polling firm asked newspaper editors around the world what they thought would be the future of newspapers, and most agreed that there was a future in print but that pressures from online media would force them to adjust how they do business. Some key points:
86 percent of respondents ...








