At 14:53 +1100 20/12/17, Stephen Loosley wrote: >One increasingly popular work-around for energy requirements when mining >cyrpto-currency. >Steal it. >For one example .. "Android trojan has miner so aggressive it can bork your >battery" > >By Richard Chirgwin 19 Dec 2017 >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/19/android_trojan_has_miner_so_aggressive_it_can_bork_your_battery/ ... >The sample analysed by Kaspersky, when running a few days to mine the Minero >cryptocurrency, worked their test device so hard that "the battery bulged and >deformed the phone cover."
Among a few aspects of this, it's a pity Kaspersky didn't publish details of the test device, so that people could avoid a supplier whose design is so shoddy that it's capable of such self-destruction. -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
