Friday, 9 February 2018

'Bitcoin' arrests at Russian nuclear lab

quote [ Russian security officers have arrested several scientists working at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility for allegedly mining crypto-currencies.

The suspects had tried to use one of Russia's most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins, media reports say. ]

You'd think nuclear scientists would think things through a little better than this.




#science & technology
#business
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[by HoZay@9:27pmGMT]

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Taxman said @ 10:06pm GMT on 9th Feb [Score:3 Funny]
The 2018 elections were so far away they didn't think anyone would need/notice the lost processing power. /s
Bruceski said @ 10:07pm GMT on 9th Feb [Score:2 WTF]
"The supercomputer was not supposed to be connected to the internet - to prevent intrusion - and once the scientists attempted to do so, the nuclear centre's security department was alerted."

That's an understatement.
Franger Sanger said[1] @ 9:29am GMT on 10th Feb [Score:1 Good]
A reply to mookie:

It takes twenty lines, not one. But when it happens humanity receives a psychedelic free pass up to the next rung of the evolutionary ladder, thus:

20 Lines
Onix said @ 10:13pm GMT on 9th Feb
Ah, let them do whatever they want, Russian scientists gave us Tetris. What could go wrong?
lilmookieesquire said @ 10:24pm GMT on 9th Feb [Score:1 Interesting]
What happens when the entire world becomes a complete line?!?
Taxman said @ 10:37pm GMT on 9th Feb [Score:2 Informative]

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