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by WangComputers 1802 days ago
They're ASICs, they're worthless for anything except mining certain kinds of crypto, given current prices not only would reselling them be questionable from a pragmatic perspective but it would be essentially encouraging the kind of illegal activity (i.e. electricity theft) which caused them to be confiscated in the first place.
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Presumably the power supplies could be repurposed?
Wonder if you could repurpose them to crack password hashes? (though even if so they'd still be better off steamrollered)