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by Ygg2 1879 days ago
Silly question. But couldn't CI say in TOS, that any crypto currency mined using their CI/CD resources belongs to the host?
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ronsor 1879 days ago
They could, but that wouldn't mean much for a few reasons:

* Cryptocurrency can't really be confiscated

* These malicious miners likely live in a country with a dubiously competent legal system.

* Lastly, it's not worth the money to try to collect.

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BrendanLong 1879 days ago
Expanding on that last point, one of the examples in the article is someone making ~$70 per month in cryptocurrency. The CI people -could- send a lawyer to Vietnam to try to collect that $70 but even if they succeed it's very not worth it.
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