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[...] tells me I'm living in strange new times indeed. A home network-storage appliance used over the Internet to create wealth out of nothing but electricity running some decryption code. These are concepts that just didn't even exist a short time ago.

this comment makes me think of the discussion earlier on AI, foreboding that AI will be able to create weapons we've never thought of or understand - although this was an individual hacker, its not a far reach that someday, AI could figure out that it could make money via these methods; or worse crowd-source it's own intellegence behind developers/scientists backs (exponential growth)...

going to be an interesting future when you need to code defensively against humans and machines (who, btw speak the native language....oh shit...)