[Cialug] ISU Computer Time Stolen to Mine Bitcoin

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2014-04-22 at 21:11:31 Todd Walton wrote:
> Why would they literally destroy the computers?  It's not like the
> hardware gets cooties once it's touched by baddies.

Depending on how old the machines were, maybe they were close to their 
end of life anyway. In which case it might not be worth the staff hours 
to wipe and reinstall.

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