In the early 2000s I ran a network of 1500 computers. At night I set them to work generating satellite TV master codes. The hackers who had been generating 1 code every 3 months were now getting several per week. The company supplying the encryption went bust shortly afterwards.
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Had this happened just ten years later, the network would be busy at night mining crypto instead
@csolisr Makes you wonder about "workstations must be online at all times" policies and Monero, doesn't it?