Solving Captchas With MIT’s $100 Computer?
Charles Arthur has written a somewhat ridiculous concept article at the Guardian UK, The price of humans who’ll spam blogs is falling to zero. It’s full of completely wrong statements, like:
If the captcha was filled in, it must have been done by a person; if it had been done by a machine, the spammers would have cracked the problem of solving captchas and would be busily spamming every blog they could find.
Actually, cracking captchas has been done reliably and cheaply. I would be comfortable saying that it’s a solved field that a script-kiddy could learn enough about online to write his own captcha-breaking spam bot.
The point of his article revolves around the idea that supplying computers to impoverished nations will result in large-arrays of manual spammers:
Elsewhere this week, deliveries began of the hand-powered laptop, Nicholas Negroponte’s computing gift to the developing world. I’ve no doubt it will radically alter the life of many in the developing world for the better. I also expect that once a few have got into the hands of people aching to make a dollar, with time on their hands and an internet connection provided one way or another, we’ll see a significant rise in captcha-solved spam.
Sorry Charles, but the human spam attack is always more expensive than the machine technique. I can buy a few machines and send out thousands of spam comments a minute–how many humans would you have to pay to do the same, 24/7?
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As I said in the article, if captchas had been solved as a machine problem, then we would be seeing an astronomical explosion in the amount, because certainly many of the blogs I look at have captcha protection (eg blogger, various Wordpress ones who have taken the trouble).
There’s a difference between sending out the attempted comment spams, and their appearing. If you get people to do it for you, you’re sure of success. What success rate do you get with comment spam? (And you don’t need a “few machines”. One will do. Haven’t you heard of open proxies?) The price will reflect that difference, sure.
Lastly, my point - in the article, had you taken the time - was focussed by reading a New Yorker article about life in Lagos, which is the world’s sixth-biggest city, and where a lot of people spend their lives looking for just anyway to get an edge. In some ways, if they could make an *honest* living from filling in captchas, that would be a lot better than doing 419s on people, don’t you think?
Charles: More poor people with cheap latops = more captchas + less 419s…? Somehow I don’t think so; Between scamming a few grand from some dumb, rich western schmuck or two and scratching together a “basic wage” from tedious manual work that can be automated I see the restless natives going for the higher $ income. Or have I completely overestimated the lu[c]re of capitalism?
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