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Hacking for evil?

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So, imagine that one installs WebDrive on one's computer, which installs Google FS behind the scenes. Then, with Chrome Developer Tools one can virtualize an operating system in JavaScript, create user profiles and start running them through profiling tasks. For example: clicking through a honeypot filled with random click-to-pay ads.

The key part is when one creates malicious Facebook apps to obtain user details that can be used to flesh out the user personas in Chrome. That makes the pay-for-click companies much less suspicious about the activity.

I swear I've seen this in action, though I won't touch it with a ten foot pole. Thoughts?

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