I've opened this thread to hopefully get a discussion rolling on how we the community can put a stop to illegal bots (Running on anything from Tv's to Tablets).
(I don't have a problem with legal bots that is,could well be a fix)
A few ideas to get the ball rolling:
.Additional verification to daemons as required by pools and solo miners.
.Providing some kind of incentive to pool hosts for taking steps to validate their miners.
.Hardware serial number/OS version encoding
.Regular Captcha-like or licensing verification , de-sensitize certain abusing behaviors etc.