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Nature 412, 894-897 (30 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35091039;

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Parasitic computing

Reliable communication on the Internet is guaranteed by a standard set of protocols, used by all computers. Here we show that these protocols can be exploited to compute with the communication infrastructure, transforming the Internet into a distributed computer in which servers unwittingly perform computation on behalf of a remote node.

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