<div dir="ltr">Right, but if they notified you they were doing this, would this be better than seeing ads which uses resources. I'm not sure myself<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It is not security. It is resources on YOUR laptop that are being<br>
used without explicit consent. CPU cycles, RAM, and responsiveness.<br>
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More and more sites doing it everyday ...<br>
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<a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-internet-is-ripe-with-in-browser-miners-and-its-getting-worse-each-day/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bleepingcomputer.<wbr>com/news/security/the-<wbr>internet-is-ripe-with-in-<wbr>browser-miners-and-its-<wbr>getting-worse-each-day/</a><br>
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On 10/18/17, Joel Nahrgang <<a href="mailto:joelsn@gmail.com">joelsn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Not sure if anyone here listens to the Security now podcast,but in the<br>
> recent one, they were discussing the browser mining and it seems like there<br>
> are a lot more sites that do it then we may think.<br>
> It was interesting to hear their take - not really insecure and doesn't<br>
> really use much of the computer.<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I use uBlock Origin as well. In addition to that, NoScript.<br>
>><br>
>> Exactly to prevent this kind of abuse, and keep my (older)<br>
>> laptop performant.<br>
>><br>
>> On 10/15/17, Chamunks <<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com">chamunks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > And this is why I use uMatrix and other JS smashing things.<br>
>> > <a href="https://brave.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://brave.com</a><br>
>> > <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-<wbr>US/firefox/addon/umatrix/</a><br>
>> > <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://chrome.google.com/<wbr>webstore/detail/ublock-origin/</a><br>
>> cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeia<wbr>gm?hl=en<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:16 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> I wonder if it is indeed a hack by a third party, or sites are<br>
>> >> experimenting with mining, or simply their ad serving<br>
>> >> service was used by third parties to serve ads.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> The ad service possibility is not likely in the case of<br>
>> >> Politifact, since The Register says the code in question<br>
>> >> was in the site navigation bar.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> But all ad serving is based on Javascript, and it would<br>
>> >> be possible with some craftiness to serve mining JS.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> We saw malware/ransomware a few months ago served<br>
>> >> this way.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On 10/14/17, Ronald Barnes <<a href="mailto:ron@ronaldbarnes.ca">ron@ronaldbarnes.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> > Khalid Baheyeldin wrote on 2017-10-14 02:43 PM:<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> >> An ad blocking firm did some research, and they claim<br>
>> >> >> that 500 million people are mining cryptocurrency when<br>
>> >> >> visiting web sites.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Haven't followed all the links supplied, but just reading that<br>
>> >> > Politifact had this "feature"; likely placed there by miscreants,<br>
>> >> > not<br>
>> >> > Politifact<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> >><br>
>> >> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/politifact_mining_" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/<wbr>2017/10/13/politifact_mining_</a><br>
>> cryptocurrency/<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Apologies if this was previously mentioned.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > r b<br>
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