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It's not that easy to get 50 million people to download your app and if you pulled that off there are more profitable things you could do.


Toolbars did just that and been used for many "evil" things..


My point exactly.

These things are easy to do in principle (most readers here can write that evil payload, or learn how to do it quickly) but there are real practical challenges to getting the code to run on millions of strangers' computers/phones/dsl routers, so most of the code that's actually deployed that widely is beneficial. Happily.


Why limit it to DDoSing? It could be just one feature, but an important one.




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