Since there is no permission requirement as such, could a malicious user use my ...

remexre · on March 3, 2021

That's part of my concern, though since scripts can use the CPU arbitrarily, they could already mine on the CPU. A larger concern is bugs like [0], since GPU drivers are highly complex and highly privileged code.

[0]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=20...

girvo · on March 3, 2021

Without the net permission to their server, mining wouldn’t achieve much, no? I might be missing something obvious though

shadowtime2000 · on March 3, 2021

Yeah that could happen. There was some discussion about a permission in the Discord though, but I don't think it was ever added or thought about on GH.