A lot of people are pretty anal about getting 'hijacked. Here are some interesting bits.
1. Miners will have nothing on them (and you shouldn't have anything more then the bare minimum on a mining system) so there is nothing to compromise.
2. If your earnings are being 'hijacked' you'll notice it in your global earnings. He could actually be lieing about the 2% and it could be closer to 5% and that would be more likely then it randomly mining whatever he wants. Matter of a fact that could be slipped into the miner and there would be very little to prove it as he can easily mask the 'dev time'. If you think you can easily notice the difference between 2% and 4% pool side you'd be wrong. Depending on the pool, pool luck, and if the pool is skimming (which isn't uncommon with some pools) it's practically invisible.
I'd be more worried about shit pools then ultra vetting a miner. Not saying looking out for a virus is a bad... always look for a virus, just some people go way too overboard with things.
I'm running the nvidia miner on my gaming rig so I'm very paranoid. My mining rig is filled with RX 470s and they're the ones I'm not worried about since they run on the bare minimum. I'm actually more worried about trojans, keyloggers,remote login stuff since these are the ones I can't actually verify and monitor. The hijack thing you're referring to can easily be verified by anyone monitoring their miner's stats from their PC and on the pool.
You don't understand how pools work and there is no way of 'verifying' the difference between 2% and 4%. That's within error rate of pools based on luck. There are very few pools that pay you exactly what you should be getting and that can fluctuate quite a bit. Pool luck, efficiency (not talking about the efficiency stat rather connection, hardware and coding), and skimming can change all of that. I'm guessing you're comparing it against whattomine... Even that has error.
There is a lot more that goes into mining then just shooting your hashrate at a pool and it always gives you what you think you should be making.
A lot of people are pretty anal about getting 'hijacked. Here are some interesting bits.
1. Miners will have nothing on them (and you shouldn't have anything more then the bare minimum on a mining system) so there is nothing to compromise.
people are pretty anal about getting 'hijacked' - using still Windows as a miner OS, usually
they should really move to linux on USB stick then, long time ago... (e.g. KopiemTu
)
Yeah, nix doesn't get viruses and can't be insecure, right? Just like Macs. Obscurity doesn't mean something is more secure, it just means people are less likely to target it.
A USB stick can become infected as well. Either that or it can't be changed and would be a PITA to mine off of and adjust all the time.
