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‘tl;dr: The time when Microsoft banned my entire country for cheating at Club Bing.’ This is a great story — though it must have been driving the MS Asirra anti-abuse team up the wall. Quite interesting to hear about low-cost/grassroots ways to accomplish some of the tech tasks, e.g. instead of firing up a farm of EC2 instances to crack a Captcha, he farmed out that work using thumbdrives, manually distributed to his friends.
(tags: coding asirra microsoft club-bing bing cheating usb-drives)