Just discovered an on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser. Remember kids: always use an adblocker
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Replying to @adamjogrady @gleeda
I'm impressed by the design but confused by its relative inefficiency....
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Replying to @hacks4pancakes @gleeda
It was also an ad for a btc exchange/wallet thing, so maybe the mining was just to recoup some cost?
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Replying to @adamjogrady @gleeda
To clarify- (I'd love to see this) - this was not exploitation to install malware which mined but only ran while the browser stayed open?
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With Moz/Chrome "ServiceWorker" idiocy it could run perpetually in the background too...
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There's a bunch of JS miner service worker example, looks real easy
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Replying to @RichFelker @adamjogrady and
Looks like I need a fix for Moz now too - got lots of crap in serviceworker.txt.
5:58 AM - 29 Aug 2017
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