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Re: A comment on using CPU resources
From: "Joachim Schipper" <j.schipper () math uu nl>
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:55:21 +0200
On 5:26:55 pm 07/09/05 Gandalf The White <gandalf () digital net> wrote:
Greetings and Salutations: I had an issue with my Firefox browser. The browser was static, yet it was using 70% or 80% of the CPU of the system. It got me to thinking. Java is a programming language. What would prevent companies from running a java script on your computer while you are viewing their page that uses your CPU to do some computing for them? Instead of selling (or in addition to selling) advertising the company could also sell CPU to other companies. Is this feasible? Ken
The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, but there are a number of other ways to achieve the same goal, without having people look at your web page all the time. More specifically, botnets can be used for computation too... The moral of this story, of course, is to turn off executing remote commands (java, javascript, whatever). But that's good practice anyway. Joachim
Current thread:
- A comment on using CPU resources Gandalf The White (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jeroen van Rijn (Jul 09)
- A comment on using CPU resources, addendum. Jeroen van Rijn (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Steven Champeon (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Security (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Andreas Bartelt (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Raghu Chinthoju (Jul 09)
- RE: A comment on using CPU resources Scott Marburger (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Steven Champeon (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Joachim Schipper (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Christian (Jul 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: A comment on using CPU resources Joseph Finley (Jul 09)
- RE: A comment on using CPU resources Martin Konold (Jul 09)
- Re: Re: A comment on using CPU resources securityfocus (Jul 09)
- Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jeroen van Rijn (Jul 09)