ylai@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoExposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crimewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down112
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minus-square0x0linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-28 months ago Also shown is a datacenter of sorts full of racks, each populated with several of the chassis and as many as 1,000 smartphones all hard at work. I wonder what the nearest cell tower could handle… Also… “China Central Television (CCTV)”, irony at its best.
minus-squareKairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-28 months agoIt’s unlikely they are using cellular connections. It would be much cheaper to just use WiFi on a phone that doesn’t have cell network access. Or they may even hardwire Ethernet, depending on what the devices are capable of.
I wonder what the nearest cell tower could handle…
Also… “China Central Television (CCTV)”, irony at its best.
It’s unlikely they are using cellular connections. It would be much cheaper to just use WiFi on a phone that doesn’t have cell network access. Or they may even hardwire Ethernet, depending on what the devices are capable of.