NortonLifeLock, the company formerly known as Symantec, has opened up a crypto can of worms a new product feature that allows users to dedicate spare graphics-chip cycles to mine the Ethereum digital currency. While cryptocurrency proponents lauded the new feature, announced last week, many security professionals and environmentally concerned critics questioned why a security company would add a feature that consumes massive amounts of energy and supports the speculative digital payment system that has become the de facto mechanism to collect profits from cybercrime.

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