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Re: distributed.net and seti@home
From: lamont () ICOPYRIGHT COM (Granquist, Lamont)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:32:26 -0800
I did some porting work on seti@home back when I admin'd more than just Linux boxes, so I had the source, and really you were just doing FFTs precisely like the web page describes. Of course I can't confirm that the data was *really* aracebo data and that it wasn't some NSA-inspired FFT-based factoring scheme to crack the Russian's RSA missile codes. And of course I always secretly suspected that the linux porter had encoded a package into the binary distrubution which patched your kernel to rootkit your box and disable correct strace()ing of the seti@home binary, but I never had time to disassemble it on an uncompromised box and prove it. But, of course, we've all been compromised already by the Ken Thomspon Compiler attack, so what does it matter? On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Kerneels wrote:
This may sound silly, but for all you know your machine could be churning away at decrypting the FBI login passwords for all you know, or whetever else, with a lovely gui showing you that you still havent found any aliens :) If there is no source, how can you be sure what is being deciphered? I personally like the idea of everyone working together toward a common goal, but I dont believe in blind trust.
Current thread:
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home, (continued)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Robert Wojciechowski Jr. (Jan 31)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Sebastian (Jan 31)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Clifford, Shawn A (Jan 31)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Seth R Arnold (Jan 31)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home CyberPsychotic (Jan 31)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Oliver Friedrichs (Feb 01)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Iván Arce (Feb 02)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Oliver Friedrichs (Feb 01)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Sen_Ml Sen_Ml (Feb 01)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Kerneels (Feb 02)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Granquist, Lamont (Feb 03)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Steffen Zahn (Feb 04)
- Re: distributed.net and seti@home Sen_Ml Sen_Ml (Feb 01)
- Possible DHCP DOS attack Paul Keefer (Feb 02)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Sebastian Andersson (Feb 02)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Eric Hacker (Feb 03)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack C.J. Oster (Feb 03)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Erik Fichtner (Feb 03)
- Re: Possible DHCP DOS attack Matthew S. Hallacy (Feb 03)
- DHCP and Security Nitzenberger, Rob, MSgt, AF/XORR (Feb 03)
- Re: DHCP and Security Erik Fichtner (Feb 03)
- Re: DHCP and Security Seth R Arnold (Feb 04)