(06-22-2018 - 02:48 AM)dorkfest3000 Wrote: Baby question here - are any of the miners able to backdoor into your system or nah?
I think that you misunderstand what a backdoor is and how it could apply to the software that I am talking about. A backdoor is an exploit that is programmed into a program so that the developer is able to access the software and do what they want with it. Which yes is could possibly be dangerous. In this case however I am talking about web miners that are based on JavaScript, The one I actually use for my sites is hosted on a server that is running Nginx and NodeJS, I picked up a Github Repo that was for Web Miners and that was where I made my Web Miner. Now How I used it was on another server that is actually running the site I would call up the web miner from the first server and define a few settings. It then runs a basic Crypto miner in JavaScript on your through your web browser. So in theory a normal web miner isn't going to do anything other than use a percentage of your CPU while you are browsing but if you are on a malicious site it may be possible for someone to exploit this technology to say put another miner on your computer secretly, but that isn't something that already cant be done.