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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How long until a botnet exploits one of these root kits and puts millions of high-end GPUs to work for whatever. Or a troll just fries everyone's hardware for the lawls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or they push a bug by accident that gets the machine into a bootloop? On the bright side hospital and airline computers don't have GTA installed on them so the impact would be reduced to personal computers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

On the bright side hospital and airline computers don’t have GTA installed on them

Are you sure?