It looks like gooles capatcha is under attack with a 20% success rate: http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=174
That's a lot of accounts to send me stock tips or enlargement pill ads. The more interesting thing would be if the bots could do something cool with all that storage! Say that this process is yeilding 1 account per minute, thats 1440 accounts a day and around 525600 accounts a year. With 6Gb of storage space per account that is 3.2 PB of distributed storage.
check out these tools to mount a single account
http://www.sizlopedia.com/2007/08/11/utilities-to-use-gmail-space-as-google-drive/
If they are clever enough to crack the captcha, they should be clever enough to create something that would mount all of these counts together as some sort of distributed file store with redundancy and resiliency.
Cool.
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