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Topic: Can mining gear be used for DoS? (Read 788 times)

sr. member
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October 31, 2013, 09:06:22 AM
#4
This is all speculative- but would sending hashes to a website's IP or something be enough to be considered dos?

No I don't intend to DoS anyone. I just wanna know if it can be done.

I think mining gear is for mining not for DDOS. It just cant...
sr. member
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October 30, 2013, 05:45:34 AM
#3
This is all speculative- but would sending hashes to a website's IP or something be enough to be considered dos?

No I don't intend to DoS anyone. I just wanna know if it can be done.

No, it would only make mining difficulty go up Smiley
hero member
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October 26, 2013, 04:57:58 PM
#2
This is all speculative- but would sending hashes to a website's IP or something be enough to be considered dos?

No I don't intend to DoS anyone. I just wanna know if it can be done.

Sure you can send hashes to some random website. But it's not going to be any different than sending random data. In either case, the effectiveness of the attack mostly depends on the bandwidth you control (and the bandwidth the target has).
legendary
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October 26, 2013, 02:15:41 PM
#1
This is all speculative- but would sending hashes to a website's IP or something be enough to be considered dos?

No I don't intend to DoS anyone. I just wanna know if it can be done.
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