"Strictly speaking"?
Not-quite-correct wording.
Probably the author wanted to express that the malware just consumes resources without doing any of the traditional "bad stuff".
Topic: 2013-07-19 IM - Bitcoin Mining Affiliate Program Pays Per Mass Malware Infection (Read 2832 times)
July 20, 2013, 09:48:57 AM
Not-quite-correct wording.
Probably the author wanted to express that the malware just consumes resources without doing any of the traditional "bad stuff".
July 19, 2013, 10:43:48 PM
"Mining is the hardware-intensive (but not, strictly speaking, illegal) process of creating new Bitcoins ..."
"Strictly speaking"?
"Strictly speaking"?
July 19, 2013, 10:13:12 PM
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/33552/bitcoin-mining-affiliate-program-pays-per-mass-malware-infection/
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Security researcher Brian Krebs took a look at the well-structured FeodalCash initiative, which pays people to install malware that turns machines into bots for mining machines for the Bitcoin virtual currency. Mining is the hardware-intensive (but not, strictly speaking, illegal) process of creating new Bitcoins by adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public ledger of past transactions.
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