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from the would-you-like-javascript-with-your-coffee dept.
We've discussed the potential for stealing CPU cycles from javascript-enabled browsers many a time. It seems one coffee shop in Buenos Aires has put it into practice:
A customer of Starbucks Buenos Aires accused the popular café company of illegally mining Bitcoin using his personal laptop. Noah Dinkin, the man who discovered that his laptop was being used to mine cryptocurrency via Starbucks' free WiFi, tweeted a screenshot to prove it. [It] shows that the WiFi provider in Starbucks Buenos Aires forces a 10 second delay when you first connect to the WiFi so it can mine crypto using the customer's laptop.
Starbucks responded to Dinkin on Twitter to clear up the accusation 10 days later.
Other twitterers pointed out that the crypto-currency in question was in fact Monero, not Bitcoin.
Also covered by The Register and the BBC among others.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @02:32AM (3 children)
And, you're a rock star, right? Oh, wait, NO ONE has ever heard of you!! What are you, exactly? A sipid loser? That would be like an imaginiative loser? An inspiring loser? Interesting loser?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday December 15 2017, @05:28AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday December 15 2017, @05:51AM
Interesting loser?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @09:57AM
It's a *bit* easier to become famous if your parents leave you tens or hundreds of million of dollars, you know, to get you started.