Game Site Secretly Put Bitcoin Software on Client Computers

Now this is low, the article is worth a read.

Bitcoin, a digital currency whose worth has been in flux of late, is still valuable enough for enterprising users to want a lot of it. One online computer gaming site administrator recently used his players to earn more than $3,600 in Bitcoins without telling them, nearly frying their computers in the process.

Reminds me of the days when system admins would get fired for running Seti on idle machines in the computer lab.  We all know that Seti was rather harmless but its not up to sysadmins to decide how to use the systems they don't own.  The thing that gets me is why was the Bitcoin software in there to begin with?  Most programmers wouldn't spend the effort adding something like this unless they planned to use it.

Of course 3 grand in Bitcoins later they got called out and as a peace offering they decided to donate the loot and offered a small fraction as a prize to one lucky gamer.

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