<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Some thoughts on the security of crowdsourced computing:</div><div><br></div><div>Installing additional software increases the attack surface of your relay, even more so when the new software access the network. (Not to mention any additional libraries.) There is also the issue of the security of automatic updates to the any executables - Folding@home may have less of an issue with this than BOINC, as there is only one project involved.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're willing to accept the additional risk, it seems like a worthy cause.</div><div><br></div><div>(There's also a minor additional power cost, which really only impacts your provider and the environment…)</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:54:24 +0100<br>From: mikael <<a href="mailto:mikael@gutanet.sk" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="48">mikael@gutanet.sk</a>><br></span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span><br><span>Hi,</span><br><span>some years ago I contributed to <a href="https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/">https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/</a></span><br><span>via BOINC (<a href="https://boinc.berkeley.edu/">https://boinc.berkeley.edu/</a>) but stoped.</span><br><span>Forgive my paranoia, but I couldn't find proof that it really helps what </span><br><span>they write, that the provided cpu power could doesn't land at NSA for </span><br><span>example :/</span><br><span></span><br><span>Any different experience?</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12/26/14 6:55 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear list members,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I would like to invite any operator, who has some idle Cores (CPU or </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>GPU) left,to join the folding@home distributed computing project:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://folding.stanford.edu/">http://folding.stanford.edu/</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>There is now a brandnew team called Tor Project (Unofficial) with the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>id 227615. Hope to see some of you there :-)</span><div style="display: none;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="display: none;"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="display: none;"><span></span><br></div></blockquote><span></span><br></blockquote></body></html>