Re:Want to use my wifi?
by philwelch on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @04:46AM
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Stealing is lucrative, not because it's an efficient use of available resources, but because it allows the thief to profit at the expense of others.
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It still has to add up to something significant if you want to make real money at it; stealing a few pennies here and there is not that lucrative. A typical recent-gen CPU mining bitcoins full-time is worth about $0.02/month. If you assume your AP is in a busy enough location that you can average 100 people connected, you'll manage to nab $2 of people's CPU time each month. To get anything significant it seems like you'd have to actually compromise the machines long-term, not just inject some JS into pages as they're browsing.