Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks agoIf you install a captcha as part of your web server, that code is running on your server.
The crawler interacting with the captcha on your server will not result in cryptominer code running on its server.
gigachad@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
True, but it’s more about solving the captcha as in finding its solution. However, there is no solution, but only a never ending task of calculation (the mining). Of course this is highly hypothetical as I do not know anything about cryptomining (and I also don’t want to know more about it).
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Without getting into the technical details, the main cost offset of running a cryptominer is the electricity used. If the crawler performs cryptominer calculations on your server it will be of no benefit to you, because you will still have to pay the electricity bill, and really it’s not the crawler doing the calculations, it’s your own server hardware.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If it’s keeping the crawlers at bay though, couldn’t the differential represent a cost savings? This question is breaking my brain, maybe I’m not thinking about it properly.