“All your partners have to know how they work. And anytime anyone knows how something works, that can be bought. And when there's… literally like hundreds of billions of dollars of hardware to be unlocked, the stakes are so high that somebody will pay someone and access will be gotten.”
The WAN Show · October 2026
The hosts are discussing locked-down data-center AI GPUs and whether they can be kept from being repurposed. He says no protection holds once that much money is at stake, and points to old crypto-mining GPUs that are still being unlocked and reused.
Transcript
It'll happen. I mean, here's the thing. No matter how unbreakable your protections are, right? All your partners
have to know how they
work. Yeah. All your partners have to know how they work. And anytime anyone knows how something works, that can be bought. And when there's, like you said, literally like hundreds of billions of dollars of hardware to be unlocked, the stakes are so high that somebody will pay someone and access will be gotten. Like it's there's no way that these modern GPUs don't get parted out and repurposed in some way. I mean, look at the way, look at the way those stupid mining GPUs are still getting used with the, with the RAM being unlocked on them.
Yep. Yep. Big time. I wanted to point this out before we go on. I got tired of Chrome constantly locking on me. And you know what? I was like, you know what? I really want to screen share this page. I'll just do it on Firefox. It'll be like a little meme for the stream. Whatever. I really don't…
Yeah.
The first thing that happens is it just shows best match Firefox, free and open source web browser. That's it. Yeah,
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