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What has changed is they don’t need to sell the cards to monetize them. No fence needed and those serial numbers will never be seen again.
by mmaunder 5y ago
What has changed is they don’t need to sell the cards to monetize them. No fence needed and those serial numbers will never be seen again.
- attythrowaway 5y agoThis. The boost is undoubtedly tied to organized crime, and organized crime is very aware of mining operations (particularly in Asia). These won’t be showing up on eBay. Spot on observation. Organized entities don’t take a truck unless they have a guaranteed outcome in mind.
- rkangel 5y agoThat's actually a really interesting point about the changed dynamics of theft.
- salawat 5y agoThis just gives Nvidia an excuse to ship cryptographically signed firmware that checks serial numbers burnt into the card and disables the card remotely. Make no mistake; they have the capability to ensure that those cards are paperweights. Just look at the nouveau project and how post-Maxwell cards are effectively locked into proprietary drivers via cryptograpgic signature verification of the firmware blob gating access to the power management and reclocking API's.