CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers

Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by indiv0 on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:39PM (#15335743)

On a similar note, I wonder how much money the Chinese government could make if they used the method they used to DDoS Github [0], but instead to load crypto-coin mining JavaScript onto every Baidu user's computer?

Then again, that seems like one of the fastest ways to make the average citizen actually angry at the Great Firewall.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/massi...

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by labster on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:49PM (#15335774)

The Chinese government is working hard to decrease pollution, not add additional stress on the power grid. Incentives change when you're the one responsible for all the externalities.

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Re:CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web... by duskwuff on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:22PM (#15335884)

The GFW works both ways. That attack injected code into Chinese browsers viewing sites outside the GFW, but it could just as easily inject code into browsers outside the GFW viewing Chinese sites...

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