Earlier this year, news was reported about Slovak Telecom secretly injecting a crypto-mining script into a website that users accessed. This was all done, apparently, without the consent of Slovak Telecom - a member of Deutsche Telekom – users. Specifically, the mobile TV Magio Go website was used, running a script that resulted in maximum processor overload due to Monero crypto-mining.
Back in the early Jurassic era, when Windows NT Server was the OS of choice, an earlier enterprise employer of mine was considering a company-wide change to Windows XP. Unfortunately, this wasn’t possible, and we remained on Windows 2000. Why? Because the entire...