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Enterprise IT, News - Monday, May 21, 2012 13:32 - 23 Comments
The ABC didn’t sack Bitcoin miner
news The Australian Broadcasting Corporation didn’t fire an un-named IT worker who attempted to use the broadcaster’s vast server infrastructure to make himself a fortune through the Bitcoin virtual currency system, it has emerged, with the employee merely being disciplined and having their access to certain IT systems restricted.
In June last year, as reported by the Sydney Morning Herald and Crikey, the broadcaster discovered that an IT worker had set up the Bitcoin mining software on a number of ABC systems in order to generate the currently. Bitcoin is a decentralised virtual currency that uses a series of key technologies such as peer to peer networking, digital signature and encryption to function. Users can ‘mine’ for Bitcoins using computer resources.
At the time, it was reported that the ABC was investigating the issue, following the discovering of the inappropriate use of the broadcaster’s IT infrastructure. This morning, Liberal Senator Eric Abetz published the result of questions he had filed with the ABC in relation to the issue.








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