Title: Calendar 2 tried turning Macs into cryptocurrency mining rigs, swiftly rolled back Mac App Store update following reviews Post by: HCK on March 13, 2018, 04:05:20 pm Calendar 2 tried turning Macs into cryptocurrency mining rigs, swiftly rolled back Mac App Store update following reviews
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/screen-shot-2018-03-12-at-5-11-26-pm.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Cryptocurrency mining has become common across certain apps, but now the trend has infiltrated the Mac App Store. As noted by Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/theres-a-currency-miner-in-the-mac-app-store-and-apple-seems-ok-with-it/), the app Calendar 2 briefly, and openly, embraced crypto mining as an alternative to having users pay a subscription feeā¦</p> <p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/03/12/mac-app-store-mining-calendar/#more-523834" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p><div class="feedflare"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?i=kXFALdv9aKs:LdCoEjAYwZg:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/9To5Mac-MacAllDay?a=kXFALdv9aKs:LdCoEjAYwZg:D7DqB2pKExk) </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~4/kXFALdv9aKs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> Source: Calendar 2 tried turning Macs into cryptocurrency mining rigs, swiftly rolled back Mac App Store update following reviews (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/kXFALdv9aKs/) |