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A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 03:26PM
Gandalf The White (gandalf digital net) (6 replies)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:55PM
Joachim Schipper (j schipper math uu nl)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:54PM
Christian (evil g-house de)

Gandalf The White schrieb:
> 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?

this was done before, but intentionally by www.md5crk.com. the project
is gone now, but archive.org has it all:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040202200333/http://www.md5crk.com/

--
BOFH excuse #64:

CPU needs recalibration

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Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:53PM
Raghu Chinthoju (raghu chinthoju gmail com)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:28PM
Andreas Bartelt (bugtraq bartula de)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:12PM
Security (security sustainedhits com)

Re: A comment on using CPU resources Jul 09 2005 06:11PM
Jeroen van Rijn (xananda gmail com)