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Re: A comment on using CPU resources

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian)
Sat Jul 9 17:16:45 2005

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Gandalf The White schrieb:
> It got me to thinking.  Java is a programming language.  What would prevent
> companies from running a java script on your computer while you are viewing
> their page that uses your CPU to do some computing for them? 

this was done before, but intentionally by www.md5crk.com. the project 
is gone now, but archive.org has it all:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040202200333/http://www.md5crk.com/

-- 
BOFH excuse #64:

CPU needs recalibration

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