On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 18:16 +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 19/03/18 16:38 +0100, Michal Novotny wrote: > > Builds are being automatically terminated if not finished in 18 hours. > > The virtual machines that builds run on are also not particularly strong > > so if anyone tried to mine something by this method, he wouldn't > > get particularly rich :). > > *Any* return is profit when you don't pay for the hardware, hosting or > electricity. That's why unscrupulous people abuse free services. Sure, but they will still have some costs of their own: - setting the whole thing up on their end - generating accounts (possibly manual process) as old ones get banned - running the "orchestrator" that pushes the mining jobs to unsuspecting public infrastructure - any obfuscation and detection avoidence they would have to do As long as the these costs are bigger than their "yield" they won't get any actual profit and will likely not bother (or more probably will move somewhere else). > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
