Loss of reputation. Also, he probably violated laws in the process. Lastly, there's a risk he screws up enough that the US Gov't not only disavows any association with him, but also prosecutes him to prove even more that he's not a co-conspirator.

$5,000? Seems like quite a bit of work and risk for just $5,000.

Of all of these, the most dangerous is "uploading files," assuming you mean music or movies.

Even if you can't get separate ones, you can disable the router part and use the modem as a bridge. I have a combo modem/router from my provider, and I disabled the router part to use my own.

Maybe not if you adjust for inflation, but it is certainly more than could have possibly been laundered. Even at a 1% fee for laundering it, which I imagine is on the low end, HSBC would be the largest organization in the world, by far.

Considering these are probably VMs that have their own machine to play on, you'll need one hell of an exploit to have a fork bomb impact the performance of another VM.

OP

I was not replying to the "OP" I was replying to the parent post referencing "some companies already require this kind of software to be installed by employees". (Quoted from memory, not source)
Also this isn't 4chan.
/Or Fark.

Not a problem, should have made it more clear that my "fact-check" comment was meant to be taken as gentle ribbing. Now that I re-read it, it looks angrier than I intended.

Why assign a hotkey to such a rare task? Make it a checkbox, two tabs away from the password field. Default: Mask the damn password.

Bitcoin mining is not efficient. The cost of the mining was more than $3,600, therefore it was a reduction in the wealth of players of more than was gained. A reasonable user would not have agreed to the mining.

I have a separate hard drive on my personal computer to boot from when I work from home, and I would love to be able to seamlessly use my phone to connect to work as well. Given the choice between my employer's giving me a non-android device (Given that my current phone is android based) and my bringing my own device, I would much rather bring my own device.

Was it really necessary to fact-check that joke?

The important bit is that it doesn't ask you, it checks your browser user agent, then asks you to confirm. The path of least resistance is "Yeah sure, whatever."

Hey, we already got Tang, everything else is just lagniappe.

Oh, he's not dead yet? Well, then, I take back everything I said.