I read this amazing post over on ZDNet that details the massive operations out of India providing contract CAPTCHA solving services. It seems the contractors pull down hundreds of thousands of CAPTCHAs automatically from the likes of Craigslist, Gmail, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook, charging around $2 per 1000 solved
With the release of the iPhone 3G, movement on affordable mobile dataplans and a myriad of new entrants in mobile applications, it is interesting to look at perceptions around mobile data. An interesting research piece from Unisys brings up the following statistics; worldwide there are 3.3 billion mobile phone subscribers
RWW reports that online storage company DivShare, has had a security breach. Apparently a malicious user accessed their database which included user e-mail addresses and other profile information. They also say that no financial information has been accessed by any unauthorized parties. It’s not the first of these sort of
An excellent post over on Geekzone about a customer experience with a bank. Seems that the bank contacted their customer by phone in order to make some changes to their account. Said customer was asked to verify their identity by password but when he rightly pointed out to the bank
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