The Pirate Bay hijacks visitors' CPU causing 100% spikes, everyone loses their ****

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The Pirate Bay hijacks visitors' CPU causing 100% spikes, everyone loses their ****

In a hilarious twist of irony, thepiratebay.se has been caught out "testing" a script that uses the CPU cycles of its visitors to mine cryptocurrecy. Apparently, this is going to replace ads though. Read more...

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