Re: Delivering on talk

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 12/31/03

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    Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@lager.engsoc.carleton.ca> writes:
    > What is interesting about this approach - when we reach final release
    > stage - is that any website that adds this small snippet of code their
    > their pages, will have their visitors working on the problem for the
    > duration of their visit to the site. The applet stores its state every
    > 5 seconds in a cookie which is used to re-initialize the applet at next
    > load. Should a few high-traffic, "sticky" websites carry this innocuous
    > HTML code, a massive amount of work can be done. Is this the first live
    > example of a "Chinese Lottery" [2]?

    That's a cute idea. You could even have some Javascript that
    generates an 1x1 image tag pointing to a url on your site, where the
    cookie contents get encoded into the url. That means you get the
    cookie data directly without needing cross-site scripting and without
    needing the other server operator to gather data and send it to you.

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