The Pirate Bay Added a CPU Hijacking Bitcoin Miner to Some Pages. File sharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site the Pirate Bay have been around for long enough while generally avoiding shady behavior theyve acquired a certain cachet with the internet community. Windows Installer Session Property Vb Script Split. But gotta gett that cash, baby, and banner ads might not be cutting it any more in the age of ubiquitous ad blocking. The Pirate Bay has added a Javascript based bitcoin miner to its homepage, Torrent Freak wrote, causing some users to notice that their CPU usage increased dramatically when they browsed certain Pirate Bay pages. The plugin, which is provided by Coinhive, puts users computers to work mining Monero, a cryptocurrency released in 2. According to Torrent Freak, the miner was throttled to rates from between 0. Coinhives website does result in an immediate and hard to miss increase in CPU utilization. Torrent Freak said they were told the miner was being tested for 2. In the meantime, users on the Pirate Bays subreddit were not happy, with several users complaining that the site never informed users the miner was running, let alone asked permission. Using a file sharing website was never going to be a risk free endeavor, though users could disable the miner with a plugin like No. Script or Script. Sean Paul Discography Torrent Pirate' title='Sean Paul Discography Torrent Pirate' />Block or by adding Coinhive to an ad blockers blacklist. Embedding bitcoin mining scripts into a website is not exactly new, though the secret addition of Coinhive to one of the worlds most popular file sharing websites is throwing up red flags. As noted by Beta. News, Coinhives own documentation advises The miner itself does not come with a UI its your responsibility to tell your users whats going on and to provide stats on mined hashes. While its possible to run the miner without informing your users, we strongly advise against it. You know this. Long term goodwill of your users is much more important than any short term profits. Malware which siphons unsuspecting users CPUs for spare cycles to mine cryptocurrency is a common problem, though peaked years ago in 2. Quartz. The amount of processing power it takes to mine Bitcoin has risen 7. However, with the ongoing explosion in initial coin offerings and new crypto variants, there might still be opportunities to cash in with methods that have stopped working with older cryptocurrencies. Torrent Freak. Search torrents on dozens of torrent sites and torrent trackers. Unblock torrent sites by proxy. PirateBay proxy, Kickass unblocked and more torrent proxies. Filesharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site the Pirate Bay have been around for long enough. Sean Paul Discography Torrent Pirate' title='Sean Paul Discography Torrent Pirate' />Theresa Mays Government Announces Plan to Thwart All Porn Viewing Minors by April 2. Malfunctioning Dalek and British Prime Minister Theresa May, fresh off of securing the support of the far right Democratic Unionist Party, has reportedly set a timetable for her governments plan to force all porn sites operating in the U. K. to check the ages of its users. According to Ars Technica UK, by April 2. Mays government plans to require all porn sites including free ones to check ID via credit card or another method like comparison to voter rolls to verify users are 1. The technical details of the planwhich is essentially an attempt to defeat the ingenuity of every horned up teenager from Inverness to Southamptonare not yet apparent. But the British Board of Film Classifications would gain the power to fine sites which operate in defiance of the new regulations up to 2. U. K. based financial services and advertisers or even ban them across the entire U. K. We have taken steps to implement the new age verification requirement for online pornography as part of our continuing work to make the Internet safer, digital minister Matt Hancock said. The new scheme is complex and will not be fully in place until April 2. All this means that while we can enjoy the freedom of the web, the UK will have the most robust internet child protection measures of any country in the world, he added. A goat that was extremely bored, ornery, or both decided to smash in the front door of polyurethane manufacturer Argonics Inc. Colorado office this weekend, and. Regulators authority to enforce the ban is essentially discretionary, Ars Technica previously reported. For example, social media sites like Twitter or Reddit could be classified as ancillary service providers if users can obtain pornography on it, though parliamentary under secretary for culture, media, and sports Lord Ashton said the government would seek a consensual regime with those sites. While major sites like Pornhub will likely have little choice but to comply with the regulations, easy ways for anyone to get around the verification system could include using a VPN, trading pornography on file sharing sites, or simply finding one of the innumerable smaller sites which slip under the BBFCs radar. Consider that somewhere between 4 1. Theres also the obvious risk of forcing millions of U. K. porn viewers to give their credit card information to an industry with notoriously bad cyber security, but thats just the price Brits might have to pay for Mays proper internet. Ars Technica UK, BBC.