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> Last July and August one or more people used the Docker Hub account docker123321 to upload three publicly available images that contained surreptitious code f
by everdev 8y ago
> Last July and August one or more people used the Docker Hub account docker123321 to upload three publicly available images that contained surreptitious code for mining cryptocurrencies
> By the time Docker Hub removed the images, they had received 5 million “pulls.” A wallet address included in many of the submissions showed it had mined almost 545 Monero digital coins, worth almost $90,000
Not ethical, but I'm not sure it reaches the "malicious" level as I'm sure in most cases the image was just using unused resources. It doesn't look like there was a virus or any "backdoor", just a separate thread mining Monero.
- jacquesm 8y agoTheft of resources is malicious.
- pandasun 8y agoIt's wrong, and possibly other things, but not malicious. Malice: desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/malice http://www.dictionary.com/browse/malice
- dbuder 8y agoElectricity costs money, paying money so another can profit is suffering.
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- pedantic_43431 8y agoBizarre comment. Your link contained a second, legal definition which completely contradicts your point. > Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others. Theft is malicious. Attempts to persuade otherwise would be... interesting to read.
- everdev 8y agoTheft is rarely malicious. It's usually about gaining something and the thief probably wouldn't mind if the other party was fully remedied by a third party like an insurance company. Assault is malicious where the intent is to damage the other person with little to no benefit for the one doing to the damage. Neither is right or acceptable, but there is a significant moral difference.