[tor-relays] OT: folding at home

[Toralf Förster]

On 12/27/2014 01:19 PM, teor wrote:
> Some thoughts on the security of crowdsourced computing:
> 
> 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 at home may
> have less of an issue with this than BOINC, as there is only one project
> involved.
> 

Right on cue maybe somebody can comment on this ? :
http://www.zwiebeltoralf.de/torserver/cep2/index.html



> If you're willing to accept the additional risk, it seems like a worthy
> cause.
> 
> (There's also a minor additional power cost, which really only impacts
> your provider and the environment…)
> 
>> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:54:24 +0100
>> From: mikael <mikael at gutanet.sk <mailto:mikael at gutanet.sk>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> some years ago I contributed to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/
>> via BOINC (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) but stoped.
>> Forgive my paranoia, but I couldn't find proof that it really helps what
>> they write, that the provided cpu power could  doesn't land at NSA for
>> example :/
>>
>> Any different experience?
>>
>>> On 12/26/14 6:55 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote:
>>> Dear list members,
>>>
>>> I would like to invite any operator, who has some idle Cores (CPU or
>>> GPU) left,to join the folding at home distributed computing project:
>>>
>>> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>>>
>>> There is now a brandnew team called Tor Project (Unofficial) with the
>>> id 227615. Hope to see some of you there :-)
>>>
>>>
>>
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