I find it fascinating how “hacked to mine bitcoin” is an entire class of attacker motivation that scarcely existed even a year ago
@0xabad1dea yes, but s/bitcoin/distributednet (circa 1998) and it is essentially the same motive. http://bit.ly/1mlgQlo
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@attritionorg@0xabad1dea Back then it was for SETI@Home bragging rights, now it’s for coins. I’m sure it’s more prevalent now though. -
@gepeto42@0xabad1dea I don't recall people hacking machines to set up SETI clients though. They did for distributednet. -
@attritionorg@0xabad1dea I remember mostly cases of unscrupulous sysadmins... It is true that SETI brought only bragging rights (no $)
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