[143219] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Proof of Work -> atmospheric carbon

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Coppi)
Fri Jan 30 15:11:56 2009

In-Reply-To: <20090128211904.73633.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:40:12 -0700
From: Thomas Coppi <thisnukes4u@gmail.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, hal@finney.org

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> Indeed.  And don't forget that through the magic of botnets, the bad
> guys have vastly more compute power available than the good guys.

 Just out of curiosity, does anyone happen to know of any documented
examples of a botnet being used for something more interesting than
just sending spam or DDoS?

-- 
Thomas Coppi

---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post