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Russian Nuclear Scientists Arrested For 'Bitcoin Mining Plot' (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

Russian security officers have arrested several scientists working at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility for allegedly mining crypto-currencies, BBC reported Friday, citing local media. From the report: The suspects had tried to use one of Russia's most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins, media reports say. The Federal Nuclear Centre in Sarov, western Russia, is a restricted area. The centre's press service said: "There has been an unsanctioned attempt to use computer facilities for private purposes including so-called mining." The supercomputer was not supposed to be connected to the internet -- to prevent intrusion -- and once the scientists attempted to do so, the nuclear centre's security department was alerted. They were handed over to the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian news service Mash says. "As far as we are aware, a criminal case has been launched against them," the press service told Interfax news agency.

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  1. Re:In an ironic twist, it's Hillary!'s fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, if only "But what about Hillary" were some kind of legal defense... Or even some kind of a logical argument, for that matter. I cannot wait to watch you snowflakes lose your minds when Trump & co. go to prison.

    Haven't been paying attention, have you?

    The "Trump/Russia collusion" narrative has fallen apart. If anyone goes to jail it'll likely be Strzok or others at the FBI who misled the FISA courts. And that would include known-leaker-of-classified-data Comey along with Rosenstein - they're among those that signed off on those fraudulent FISA warrant requests.

    The information in the paid-for-by-Clinton "Steele" dossier has been just about definitively traced back to the Clinton campaign - Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer. And the FBI knew that, and still used the completely-uncorroborated "Steele" dossier as the basis for FISA warrants used to "reverse target" the Trump campaign.

    Oh, yeah - it also looks like Clinton got the "information" in the dossier from Russia's FSB.

    So WHO colluded with Russia?

    And nevermind the fact that UraniumOne bribery is still hanging out there and might very well blow up on Her Heinous.