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How your smart fridge might be mining bitcoin for criminals

July 2, 2018 05:57 am JST 4 Comments

By ROBERT STEVENS

LONDON

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Numan
July 2, 2018 12:31 pm JST

Some websites have been known to use your computers processing power to mine cryptocurrency whenever you visit their site.

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kyronstavic
July 2, 2018 03:06 pm JST

Quite the moral dilemma. Let criminals mine bitcoins with my fridge (good luck finding anything in there except for old yogurt and a few days' worth of leftovers.

Or let governments continually devalue our purchasing power with fiat currency they can "print" at the drop of a hat.

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Goodlucktoyou
July 2, 2018 12:09 pm JST

Still trying to deal with an email hack, now I can’t walk past my fridge without feeling anger. Maybe also my dishwasher and my tv. Machines are taking over, beware.

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garypen
July 2, 2018 09:23 am JST

They had a similar plot point on the HBO TV series, Silicon Valley.

Life imitates art, once again.

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How your smart fridge might be mining bitcoin for criminals