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I think the fear is this happening in the background, without your knowledge, causing you to pay more for electricity or draining your laptop battery.
by paulgb 13y ago
I think the fear is this happening in the background, without your knowledge, causing you to pay more for electricity or draining your laptop battery.
- maratd 13y agoAn infinite loop can do that just as well. Is that illegal now as well?
- diminoten 13y agoIntentional infinite loops might be illegal.
- platypii 13y agoOnly if the court can prove whether a program halts or not.
- vdaniuk 13y agoSlow clap.
- oftenwrong 13y agowhich is possible
- cynwoody 13y agoI would hope so (if done intentionally and without the user's informed consent). It would be a DoS attack.
- deletes 13y agoIt wouldn't happen concealed, this could be similar to a paywall, but you pay with your cpu( read:gpu ) time.
- Zigurd 13y agoMobile app ad networks commit all kinds of horrors "in the background."