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Ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but for software development (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You joke, but I've actually been responsible for a coder getting shown the door for running a coin miner on his work laptop.

In his defense, cyber security at that company was crap for a long time. After a ransomware outbreak, they started paying attention and brought some folks like myself in to start digging out. This guy missed the easy out of, "hey that's not mine!" The logs we had were spotty enough that we would have just nuked the laptop and moved on. But no, he had to fight us and insist that he should be allowed to run a coin miner on his work laptop. Management was not amused.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Am I just stupid or does that seem like an extreme reaction?
Apart from the ~0% profitability these days, what's the issue with running a coin miner?