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Such a weird case. Tidbit doesnt even do anything interesting, it is a demo of a clone of an existing piece of software (used to steal CPU cycles from victims,
by judk 13y ago
Such a weird case. Tidbit doesnt even do anything interesting, it is a demo of a clone of an existing piece of software (used to steal CPU cycles from victims, which is why NJ is interested).
NJ is I guess confusing cause and effect, and suspects these MIT 'geniuses' of supplying thr 'prohibitively complex' code to the known criminals and then trying to use that same code to win honors at a hackathon?
- TwoBit 13y agoI'm trying to understand what actual laws the students could possibly have broken.
- dublinclontarf 13y agoThis is the US we are talking about here, there has to be SOME law which they have broken. Considering everyone breaks the law every day without realising it.
- hga 13y agoBreaking a New Jersey law when your only connection with it was attending the funeral of a grandmother some time ago is a bit more difficult....
- seniorsassycat 13y ago> Then, in December, Rubin was contacted by the New Jersey attorney general’s office, which asked for, among other things, a list of all websites “affected by the Bitcoin code,” copies of “all contracts and/or agreements” with customers, “[a]ll documents and correspondence concerning all breaches and/or unauthorized access to computers by you,” and “[a]ll codes, source codes, control logs, and installation logs concerning the Bitcoin code.”