- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:11:04 +0300
On Aug 29, 2009, at 00:47, David Bennett wrote: > There currently is no way to detect the system idle state in the > browser. This makes it difficult to deal with any sort of chat room > or instant messaging client inside the browser since the idle will > always be incorrect. How could such a notification be abused? The first abuse use case I can think of is throttling Web Workers-based botnet computation to be less detectable by the user (i.e. taking over the user's compute resources while the user isn't experiencing the slowdown). -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
Received on Monday, 31 August 2009 00:11:04 UTC