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Wow. I wouldn't ever have even imagined that including a bitcoin miner in a program would be illegal. Sure they never declared that they did so but loads of pro

Wow. I wouldn't ever have even imagined that including a bitcoin miner in a program would be illegal. Sure they never declared that they did so but loads of programs do stuff that you'd never know about (for example reporting back personal data about your computer or running complex anti-piracy related code or modifying your system). I'm a little surprised you can sue for "damaging client's systems and spiking their electricity bills". Don't all video games do that? Hell, even javascript on websites has been known to go into infinite loops and max out my computer for a long time before I noticed. I'd never have thought I'd have a chance if I sued the person who wrote the bad javascript. Adding something secretly to your employers program without telling anyone however is defiantly something you can be sued over. Wow, sucks to be him or the employer really. I'm a little surprised he even tried, it's not really something that would be easy to keep secret for any length of time.

awda 13y ago
There's some intent here -- this is clearly intentionally abusive of users' computers, and for his personal profit. Seems pretty clearly malicious.
- nfoz 13y ago
  I consider most of the crap that goes on in commercial software to be intentionally abusive of users' computers....
- pogden 13y ago
  This seems less malicious than, say, installing Ask toolbars.
invisible 13y ago
> I'm a little surprised you can sue for "damaging client's systems and spiking their electricity bills". Running a GPU at 100% for days will destroy said GPU pretty quickly. Heat can only escape from things so fast without being given a cool down period. GPUs regularly run $400+ and there was malicious intent with regard to the damage (unlike most bugs on websites/etc.).
- anonymous 13y ago
  No it can't and it shouldn't. The GPU will just downclock if it can't handle the heat.
  - invisible 13y ago
    I've never heard of a GPU automatically downclocking due to heat. Source? Other scenarios: When the fan (eventually) fails, the GPU will fall victim soon after. A lot of gamers also overclock their GPU which would put that GPU at even more of a risk.
rfvtgb 13y ago
>Don't all video games do that? The software actually provides access to competitive leagues and various other resources for various games. I think this is a good summary of the backstory: http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1hn6n5/esea_north_americas_highest_level_6v6_league/caw096j http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1hn6n5/esea_north_ameri...

awda 13y ago

There's some intent here -- this is clearly intentionally abusive of users' computers, and for his personal profit. Seems pretty clearly malicious.

nfoz 13y ago
I consider most of the crap that goes on in commercial software to be intentionally abusive of users' computers....
pogden 13y ago
This seems less malicious than, say, installing Ask toolbars.

invisible 13y ago

> I'm a little surprised you can sue for "damaging client's systems and spiking their electricity bills". Running a GPU at 100% for days will destroy said GPU pretty quickly. Heat can only escape from things so fast without being given a cool down period. GPUs regularly run $400+ and there was malicious intent with regard to the damage (unlike most bugs on websites/etc.).

anonymous 13y ago
No it can't and it shouldn't. The GPU will just downclock if it can't handle the heat.
- invisible 13y ago
  I've never heard of a GPU automatically downclocking due to heat. Source? Other scenarios: When the fan (eventually) fails, the GPU will fall victim soon after. A lot of gamers also overclock their GPU which would put that GPU at even more of a risk.

rfvtgb 13y ago

>Don't all video games do that? The software actually provides access to competitive leagues and various other resources for various games. I think this is a good summary of the backstory: http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1hn6n5/esea_north_americas_highest_level_6v6_league/caw096j http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1hn6n5/esea_north_ameri...