[Cialug] ISU Computer Time Stolen to Mine Bitcoin

Jonathan A. Kollasch jakllsch at kollasch.net
Tue Apr 22 21:35:05 CDT 2014


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:11:31PM -0500, Todd Walton wrote:
> Why would they literally destroy the computers?  It's not like the hardware
> gets cooties once it's touched by baddies.

Well, get root on a lot of machines and you can give the firmware
cooties.  That said, this does sound overkill.


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