Will the Pentagon get Luckey with a new IVAS vendor?
Microsoft plans to quit developing augmented-reality headsets for the US Army and have Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries take over the gig.…
Given the blatant vulnerability, ease of implementing large-scale automation, and usage of privacy invasive tracking cookies reCAPTCHAv2 checkbox presents itself as a complete vulnerability disguised as a security tool. Google was previously sued for $22.5 million for secretly adding tracking cookies to apple users devices. It can be concluded that the true purpose of reCAPTCHAv2 is as a tracking cookie farm for advertising profit masquerading as a security service. [...]
There have been at least 512 billion reCAPTCHAv2 sessions, taking 819 million hours, which translates into at least $6.1 billion USD in free wages.
Traffic resulting from reCAPTCHAv2 consumed 134 Petabytes of bandwidth, which translates into about 7.5 million kWhs of energy, corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2 pollution. [...]
At least 65.8 billion [sessions] would have been image challenges [resulting in] in labeled data. According to Google, the value of 1,000 items of labeled data is in the $35 - $129 USD range, which would be worth at least $8.75 -3 2.3 billion USD per each sale. [...]
That would put the estimated value of [the reCAPTCHAv2-created tracking cookies] at $888 billion dollars.
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