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What are some other things botnets could be used for?
by MuffinFlavored 9y ago
What are some other things botnets could be used for?
- nine_k 9y agoStealing CPU cycles for mining, password cracking, captcha solving, etc?
- discreditable 9y agoDon't forget spam!
- philsnow 9y agowhat's the one thing phones have tons of that desktops don't? sensors. lots and lots of them, and many of them don't require an explicit permission to access. if you pay the developers of a few nigh-ubiquitous mobile app dev libraries to let you phone home sensor data while their apps are on, you can probably get some really interesting novel information, and you might be able to find somebody willing to buy a dataset constructed from sensors on 50% of all smartphones.
- ta_12313i9ut0 9y agoAd fraud. Mobile video gives high CPMs.