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Starbucks Wi-Fi hijacked customers' laptops to mine cryptocoins
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What would you like with your latte? Cocoa? Cinnamon? Sprinkle of cryptocurrency mining piggybacking off your free Wi-Fi? Recent visitors to a Buenos Aires Starbucks didn't actually have a choice: instead, a 10-second delay was foisted on them when ...
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