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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by andreyf on Monday July 20, 2009 @05:39PM (#715279)
To get more people excited, might be a good idea to say how many cycles each browser has contributed - make it a fight of Chrome vs Firefox vs Safari ;)
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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by ars on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @05:00PM (#716857)
He can't.

As far as I can tell, the browsers only contact him if they find a string with a shorter hamming distance, otherwise it's entirely offline, including picking random words.

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