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Interesting. I wonder if anyone has built (or it would make any practical sense) a distributed silent bot net not for DDoS of websites but rather of math. Imag
by aroman 13y ago
Interesting. I wonder if anyone has built (or it would make any practical sense) a distributed silent bot net not for DDoS of websites but rather of math.
Imagine a small, otherwise-benign virus which simply spends some of your CPU cycles cracking something. Computers are pretty fast these days. It'd sure be easier to brute-force attack a password with thousands of average computers than one big one.
(I realize it'd probably be vastly easier and more practical to simply buy cloud-based CPU cycles, of course.)
- krapp 13y agoMore interesting (but evil) would be to split the difference and just sell the cycles you're hijacking as a service. Which is, yes, of course just kind of reinventing a botnet. But I could almost imagine this being part of the cost of using a website (again, evil) in lieu of seeing their advertising. Of course said site would have to be unusable without js. And of course, sites would just farm your cpu and serve the ads anyway.
- bliker 13y agoI accidentally created something like that some time ago. But using website do deliver the script is problematic due to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy