Russian nuclear scientists arrested for 'Bitcoin mining plot'

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Russian nuclear scientists arrested for 'Bitcoin mining plot' This is hilarious! It sounds like a Bitcoin theme for an Austin Powers movie.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if dude was running a Russian mail order bride catalog out of the same servers too.

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Yeah, a couple of retards decided to connect a supercomputer at a nuclear research center to the Internet. What could go wrong, right?

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Trigger internal security measures, obviously.

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welcome every “black hat hackers” wet dream and every country that does not have nukes wet dream as well. sounds more like a cover up to me but that is my theorist side talking.

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I am sure that they got them by the internet traffic. However more funnier is the story inside that article that mentioned of a guy who bought two power stations for mining…

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i wonder how they connected the super cluster to the internet in the first place. I would imagine it would be physically separated from the computers that have any sort of internet access. Wifi perhaps?