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I prefer shady botnets being used for stuff like this rather than sending and posting spam, but I'd guess that most of the 50k users who have installed this hav
by m_eiman 18y ago
I prefer shady botnets being used for stuff like this rather than sending and posting spam, but I'd guess that most of the 50k users who have installed this have no idea that they have and what it does.
I didn't look very hard to find it, but is there a list of places/apps that install this?
- jibiki 18y agoI looked at the Plura website, and it seems they mostly target institutions (Schools and such) that want to make money off of their spare cycles. So it's not like they're directly installing stuff on the machines of unwitting fools; they pay for processor time. EDIT: wow, never mind, I totally misunderstood their model: http://www.pluraprocessing.com/technology.html http://www.pluraprocessing.com/technology.html
- slackenerny 18y agoInspiring. Reminds me of old ways in doing cloud computing: EC2 : http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/ http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/ S3 : http://isec.pl/papers/juggling_with_packets.txt http://isec.pl/papers/juggling_with_packets.txt ; )
- stcredzero 18y agoTheir datacenter costs might be lower. Hopefully, they can pass that on to their customers.