Almost any system worth securing will be protected by more than just a password that you can guess millions of combinations without getting locked out. Unless we're talking about nuclear codes of course

I really don't understand computing

Particularly for multi-threaded applications like this.

Most (all?) of the crypto-mining rigs are really just support systems (cooling, power, etc.) for a bunch of GPUs

On the standard motherboard if you will, is a chip that may contain anywhere from 1 to 8 individual CPU's that can run in parallel.

As graphics became for sophsticated, the invention of the GPU (graphics processing unit) came along, very small, specialized and limited processors that could just handle the math & operations required to paint pixels on screens. Graphics chip manufacturors were able to put many, many GPU's on a single chip, so the "painting" of the image on a screen would happen with processors running in parallel, and the time to create a single screen got extremely fast.

Software programmers can utilized these graphics cards to not just create pixels to create images, but process any data they want.

My graphics chip has 768 individual processing units, and it is just a mid-range chip.

sl8.

Thanks for informing us of this threat. I will now change them! I'm thinking sl9 should be a safe alternative.

When I get home, I'm gonna change it to capital letter - 4321.

That ought'a hold 'em for a while.

That's the combination an idiot puts on their luggage!

If they want to see how many games of Spades I have won, so be it. One thing for certain, even the best hacker in China or Russia can't get his hands on the money hidden in my mattress.