Вот, блин, дожили.

Пишет мне бывший начальник (здесь и далее выделение моё):

Юра, привет!

Посмотри, пожалуйста, есть реквест на большой сложный проект, кроме тебя лучше никто не подскажет.

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Do you have any experience breaking captchas. It is one of the most difficult parts of this project. See the attachment for an example algoritm and let me know if and why you think your group can handle it.

И дальше в аську подробности про проект (авторская орфография сохранена):

I need a programmer or group of programmers with ALOT of experience.

You must be willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement before I show you the design docs, and sign an agreement that I will maintain all intellectual rights to the source code, the final program and all prototypes of the program. If you already have such documents drawn up, that is a plus.

I cannot disclose specifics of the project with out an NDA, but I will highlight the important technologies and challenges you will face:

The project will be written in C# using the .Net 2.0 framework

IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGIES

1- Act as a web browser to:
a. Send and receive HTTP requests
b. Send and receive SHTTP requests
c. Handle Java script in resulting requests
d. Save a dynamically generated image file from the http result
2- TCP communications
a. Open and maintain TCP connections between a controller program and a dynamic number of slave programs.
b. Send and receive messages and information between the slave and controllers
*3- Image Processing and OCR-- Beat a Captcha
a. Must be able to take an image of manipulated text and using image processing and OCR, determine what the image says in plain text

Чувствуете, куда ветер дует? Я так думаю, это будет автоматизированное рабочее место командующего армии зомби-спамеров.

Не хочу иметь никакого отношения к этому проекту. Пусть лучше выпьют йаду и убьют себя ап стену.