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Comment by carterschonwald

6 days ago

the cpu usage will be so absurd the devices would be trashed or batteries run down like instantly.

IoT devices don't have batteries. CPU usage on hacked devices may not be reliable.

Probably time to rely on the touch test. Although, alarmingly, my ISP-provided cable modem is consistently hot to the touch, and darned if I can figure out how to get any insight into why.

It's a simple matter in Linux to limit the CPU usage of a process. Would slow things down, but not completely stop them

  • Can't wait until this botnet working at 0.005 tokens per second kills humanity in a billion years