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This was studied a few years ago as "parasitic computing":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_computing

But it's a bit strange that the same broad concept can include subtle things where the indirect result of an activity is a computation that someone else wanted you to make, along with explicit cases where someone asks your device to run a full-fledged applet and it does so (to someone else's benefit).



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