Franz: So there is a backdoor miner in this app

Created on 31 Jan 2018 · 6Comments · Source: meetfranz/franz

https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/blob/master/src/lib/Miner.js

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Karlheinzniebuhr

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Not sure if it was removed or even optional, noticed from time to time franz cpu and memory usage gets crazy

matheusdavidson on 11 Dec 2018

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Wow thanks dude, good find

webworker01 on 31 Jan 2018

@adlk mentioned this in slack https://github.com/meetfranz/franz/pull/587

webworker01 on 31 Jan 2018

It's not a backdoor miner.
It's a donation option that can be optionally turned on.
The button to turn it on was removed a while ago, but the script is still present. I've been using franz5 since first linux release and have never had issues relating to mining.