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Re:Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, an... by FlashBlaze on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:03PM (#26324607)
Since there is no permission requirement as such, could a malicious user use my GPU for mining?
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Re:Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, an... by remexre on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:08PM (#26324639)
That's part of my concern, though since scripts can use the CPU arbitrarily, they could already mine on the CPU. A larger concern is bugs like [0], since GPU drivers are highly complex and highly privileged code.

[0]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=20...

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Re:Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, an... by girvo on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:06PM (#26335358)
Without the net permission to their server, mining wouldn’t achieve much, no? I might be missing something obvious though
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Re:Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, an... by shadowtime2000 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:09PM (#26324646)
Yeah that could happen. There was some discussion about a permission in the Discord though, but I don't think it was ever added or thought about on GH.
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