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You work at a school, and your job is IT Director essentially?
Yeah, so I have access to the root account of a lot of the computers in a lot of the labs. I figure this summer, when the computers aren’t being used, I’d basically have my own little server farm.
Now explain what you are doing with the computers and Bitcoins?
On the computers there’s a Daemon that runs at startup that basically calls a specialized script; each of the computers has its unique username and password, logs into a server, gets a chunk of mathematical work to do, and reports back when it has a solution.
And how many computers do you have running it?
Right now I have it on about 15. I haven’t decided yet whether or not to to scale it up to the maximum I could do, which is about 60.
Is that illegal?
Well, Bitcoins are legal. Using the computers to do this? I am pretty sure that’s a grey area. I’d be hard-pressed to tell you which law I was breaking. I am pretty sure my employers wouldn’t be thrilled if they found it though.
Do you think they would even understand what was going on?
Most likely not.
Yeah, so I have access to the root account of a lot of the computers in a lot of the labs. I figure this summer, when the computers aren’t being used, I’d basically have my own little server farm.
Now explain what you are doing with the computers and Bitcoins?
On the computers there’s a Daemon that runs at startup that basically calls a specialized script; each of the computers has its unique username and password, logs into a server, gets a chunk of mathematical work to do, and reports back when it has a solution.
And how many computers do you have running it?
Right now I have it on about 15. I haven’t decided yet whether or not to to scale it up to the maximum I could do, which is about 60.
Is that illegal?
Well, Bitcoins are legal. Using the computers to do this? I am pretty sure that’s a grey area. I’d be hard-pressed to tell you which law I was breaking. I am pretty sure my employers wouldn’t be thrilled if they found it though.
Do you think they would even understand what was going on?
Most likely not.
I am sure that school's legal counsel will be less hard-pressed to find a few ways to press criminal charges on felony level (in US). Ignorance is rather bad defence.
) should be very rare, and the larger the excursion, the more rare.
