Ongoing DDOS attacks

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

What if we got all the DDOS attacker connections to do cryptocurrency mining for us and kept the money to pay for servers for saidit?!

DUDE!!! You're a freaking genius!!!

OK, how would that work? Each connection to saidit is used to create a little bit of the chain, just a little so it's barely noticeable in the performance, but enough that when DDOS is going on if just keeps on pouring the $$$$ ? You know, laughing all the way to the bank?

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As a cryptography expert it doesn't really work like that.

Unless you find a way for the attacks to compute specific puzzles, then it's impossible.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not sure if it's possible. But if someone hacked over a million webcams to mine for bitcoins without the owners knowing, then it seems like someone could create a webpage that connects to a mining pool and starts mining in the background.

But another problem is a lot of the connections are initiated and then immediately dropped, so even if we could trick all that DDOS traffic to go to a mining webpage, they probably still wouldn't stay long enough to do any appreciable work.

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The one thing I found was CoinHive, here's an article not very specific about it: https://www.theregister.com/2017/10/19/malwarebytes_blocking_coin_hive_browser_cryptocurrency_miner_after_user_revolt/

Don't think it would work on DDOS, but who knows, maybe some genius will come with some ways to generate block chain based on connection requests of a DDOS.