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Senior developer: "not my coin miner!! ... i mean, how'd that get there?"
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.
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?
Analogous to someone using the company car to make some extra money as a uber/lift driver. Do you still not see the problem?
Kinda, but not as a firable offense.
Using the company car for uber would raise the odometer, wear the tyres, use fuel, risk crashing, etc..
As long as things are within thermal limits, it won't risk damaging the device.
I guess it could make the battery degrade quicker, but it seems so insignificant in comparison.