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WebGL FTW! :)
Wouldn't work. The right API calls aren't exposed. You would need something like webCL.
All you need are shaders to do gpu computation.
New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
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Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#32Malware Bitcoin-miners, hmm? I don't like Skype as a vector... what if you could put it in the browser instead? Which leads me to a less malware-y idea: write a JavaScript/Flash/similar component that mines bitcoins in a web browser. Put it on your site instead of ads. Has anyone beat me to it?
Why do you think the browser would be a better vector than Skype?
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#33Evil...and yet I'm a bit disappointed it doesn't try to use the computers GPU instead of CPU.
(and yes I'm aware this wouldn't work in all cases).
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#34Malware Bitcoin-miners, hmm? I don't like Skype as a vector... what if you could put it in the browser instead? Which leads me to a less malware-y idea: write a JavaScript/Flash/similar component that mines bitcoins in a web browser. Put it on your site instead of ads. Has anyone beat me to it?
plura?
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#35Is it also stealing people's local wallets too?
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#36http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable I don't see how this is any worse.
One is malware, the other isn't. When I open their "Generate Bitcoin" page it won't run because I don't have Java, not JS, in my browser. If I did it would ask me for permission to run and if I said yes it wouldn't be persistent.
The Skype malware is classed as a malicious IRC-bot so unless it's very specialized it's safe to assume it includes other features as well, like DDoSing, searching and mass uploading of files ("wallet.dat"?), mass downloading and running of files (so the backdoor could be extended at any time), login form reporting and what have you.
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#37Malware Bitcoin-miners, hmm? I don't like Skype as a vector... what if you could put it in the browser instead? Which leads me to a less malware-y idea: write a JavaScript/Flash/similar component that mines bitcoins in a web browser. Put it on your site instead of ads. Has anyone beat me to it?
That'd be an interesting advertising alternative that could be good for both parties. In exchange for content, you give the website X CPU cycles (or GPU I guess). It could be built into the browser so that you'd have really efficient mining techniques. Clients (with beefier computers) could choose to give more cycles to their favorite sites. I'm not sure if you could provide comparable amounts of revenue. I guess tim…
What if you were, say, Facebook, and had lots of visitors, good time-on-site metrics and you were still searching for ways to grow revenue? Might it make sense? Seems like their entire userbase could combine to mine quite a few bitcoins.. But I'm not a miner, so perhaps I'm wrong? A quick search turned up a Fast Company article that claims (http://www.fastcompany.com/3005269/facebooks-daily-mobile-us...) 618 million daily users. Assuming that most of those folks aren't logged on all day and many (more than half!) are logging on via mobile, you'd probably only be able to convert a fraction of those to effective miners, but even still it sounds like a lot of bitcoins per day. Perhaps they might offer users the option in exchange for better privacy controls and/or an ad-free experience?
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#38A keylogger would be more lucrative than a bitcoin miner.
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#39A keylogger would be more lucrative than a bitcoin miner.
A bitcoin miner is much safer and requires much less time commitment.
Re: New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins
#40Malware Bitcoin-miners, hmm? I don't like Skype as a vector... what if you could put it in the browser instead? Which leads me to a less malware-y idea: write a JavaScript/Flash/similar component that mines bitcoins in a web browser. Put it on your site instead of ads. Has anyone beat me to it?
plura?
Plura Processing pays affiliates up to $2.60 per full month of computing time provided(when they have customers).
I don't think it competes well with advertising.