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Re: World Community Grid Network -- Anyone have a policy on this?
From: Buz Dale <buz.dale () USG EDU>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:07:35 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I seem to remember someone using lab facilities for SETI and being charged with theft of resources in the not too distant past.... Buz Morrow wrote: | http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org | | Any institution have a policy on whether (and what type) | of computers can 'add' themselves to the World Community | Grid Network (or the SETI or Distributed RC Crack projects, | etc....)? | | Looks like they have around 15,000 members and 18,000 PCs. | | The group is certainly on the up and up (they are backed by IBM, | their President is Zoe Baird and they are using grid technology | from United Devices) but the fact that you download an agent & | then allow it to run tasks on 'work' downloaded from a remote | site makes me slightly uneasy (though spyware is far worse). | | - H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM | Director - Information Security Office | Yale University, ITS | | ********** | Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion | Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. - -- - ---- Buz Dale buz.dale () usg edu IT Security Specialist 1-888-875-3697 Office of Information and Instructional Technology University System of Georgia -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBo2BGKfQ4bdk3mqwRAn6aAJ0dHAMCI+pA+otwBIWT2mwL0eiOeACdEEG8 FBc0FGOSWKKlF1eqAGksvqM= =LuVm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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- World Community Grid Network -- Anyone have a policy on this? Morrow (Nov 23)
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- Re: World Community Grid Network -- Anyone have a policy on this? Buz Dale (Nov 23)