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Parasitic computing

2001-09-07 20:05:23+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Phil turned me on to the idea of Parasitic Computing. Rather than strict cracking, this takes the idea that you can use things like TCP/IP checksums to do real computation, and raises all sorts of interesting ethical questions about resource use.

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