Outsourcing

on a completely ingenious, maybe even at an insidious level, is described in this article on hiring armies of low-wage professionals to solve the weird and sometimes funny CAPTCHA codes that one often sees as the first form of verifying that a human and not some automated robotic program (which makes this whole process even more ironic) at the other end of a supposedly secure transaction. (via: Boingboing)

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