Aren't most website storing long-term cookies when the user check the "remember me" function? Also, I think that the most difficult part of an automatic signup system would be captchas.
This is something I have thought about, but I've observed a great many websites that don't use a captcha because of whatever reason. All that's needed here is to bulk-solve captchas as they are needed. Not necessarily in a nefarious manner, but simply to isolate/silo the captcha solving process away to another system. There could a separate H.I.T (Human Intelligence Task) system similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk program where the 'hard problem' of captchas scales down to a more manageable problem.
Depending on the size and scope of the skeleton key system, there could even be (very willing) people ready to solve them in exchange for a small fee. There's a startup if I saw one. Users of the skeleton key system could go premium if they want to bypass captcha systems and a portion of the money goes to the captcha-solver. Probably not a new idea, as I've seen many such nefarious systems in place for spam, except this would be legitimized!
you want to bulk solve captcha's, in a non nefarious manner? but do you realize that bulk solving is nefarious? captcha is to prove you are human, not a bot or script.
signaler|10 years ago
Depending on the size and scope of the skeleton key system, there could even be (very willing) people ready to solve them in exchange for a small fee. There's a startup if I saw one. Users of the skeleton key system could go premium if they want to bypass captcha systems and a portion of the money goes to the captcha-solver. Probably not a new idea, as I've seen many such nefarious systems in place for spam, except this would be legitimized!
meesterdude|10 years ago
detaro|10 years ago