Comment on How I Accumulated 2M Stellar in Less Than 24 HoursparentComments−gdb12yNote that Everett was paying Mechanical Turks to auth their legitimate/existing Facebook accounts — not to go and fill out a bunch of captchas to farm new ones.−opendais12yYes. That is farming Facebook accounts. :/If I had meant "creating Facebook accounts", I'd have stated that. This is a technique that has been used before on various blackhat forums.Generally farming is getting people in countries with cheap labor to go out and perform the action for you. Mechanical Turk is one way to do that.e.g. Term in a different way: http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2009/captcha-farms/Captcha Farms do the same thing but with a private pool of cheap labor.Gdb, I was trying to be circumspect and not spelling it out so some script kiddie didn't go and immediately use the technique.
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Note that Everett was paying Mechanical Turks to auth their legitimate/existing Facebook accounts — not to go and fill out a bunch of captchas to farm new ones.
Yes. That is farming Facebook accounts. :/
If I had meant "creating Facebook accounts", I'd have stated that. This is a technique that has been used before on various blackhat forums.
Generally farming is getting people in countries with cheap labor to go out and perform the action for you. Mechanical Turk is one way to do that.
e.g. Term in a different way: http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2009/captcha-farms/
Captcha Farms do the same thing but with a private pool of cheap labor.
Gdb, I was trying to be circumspect and not spelling it out so some script kiddie didn't go and immediately use the technique.