A Musing Bean

Everyone's a Miner


Via Boing Boing:

Researchers at Malwarebytes have discovered that some programs covertly install Bitcoin-mining software on users' computers, papering over the practice by including sneaky language in their license agreements allowing for "computer calculations, security."

Yep, if you ain't paying for the service, you are the service.

Seriously, people still install free toolbars?

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