Nvidia hackers leak employee credentials

Not only will it make the public associate FOSS and hackers, it literally will attract more hackers to the scene. Like, actual black hats.

We don't need them. They're just going to drag Linux down with time wasting Kali script kidded questions, harass people with rm -rf pranks, and generally their best to turn it into a cyberpunk UNIXlike fragmented tinkering OS again, and try to stuff coins in all our apps.

There's lots of great security professionals. There may be even legitimate uses for black hat hacking.

This seems so poorly though out it will only interest the jerks.

The code files are untouchable. Who in the mainstream FOSS scene would risk the legal nightmare of looking at them?

NVIDIA is probably not going to comply with requests. They likely see it as negotiating with terrorists.

And the intent is to bypass hash rate restrictions.

NVIDIA drivers exist on Linux already. If I was the type who could afford to be using an NVIDIA card, I'd rather have closed drivers than no official working drivers, or no card at all because miners bought them all.

[1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn