Re: SETI@Home - Safe or Exploitable?

[Johan De Meersman <johan () ops skynet be>]

James Shaw wrote:

> remotely sends and retrieves data for processing, I have never heard of
> SETI being exploited.  Any thoughts, opinions, or facts the community
> would like to share would be appreciated.
>  
As far as I know, SETI doesn't push data, but each client fetches data
blocks whenever it needs them. This would make seti pretty hard to
exploit without at least taking over their domain or hacking their
server machine and application. I don't know to what degree the
transactions are encrypted, though.

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