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by 0x0 3068 days ago
At the very least I'm sure the script checks a few simple conditions before unleashing the miner, such as current date, ip, language prefs, possibly a "go/no-go" boolean hosted on some random webserver, to evade any pre-screening before being accepted into the ad rotation.
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I've heard of something similar whee drivers (partiularly graphics) trying to get WHQL cert will check for a special registry entry, and only if its present will do the ridiculous unsafe things like directly patching the IDT to get the performance they want, but will play nice otherwise so they pass cert.