Re: distributed.net and seti@home

[stefan () AESCHBACHER COM (Stefan Aeschbacher)]

Sen_Ml Sen_Ml wrote:
> what's always bugged me about things like seti@home and
> distributed.net is the fact that they are in place to conduct massive
> network sniffing.
>
> all these clients on a lot of different networks running software that
> report some kind of info (who can tell what is sent?) to a central
> point...scares me.
>
> the fact that some of these projects don't release their source code
> makes it even worse.
even though they don't give you the source code, it's pretty easy to
check
whether the programm sets your network card in promiscuous mode
(on unix ifconfig -a), so I think they wouldn't dare to do such a thing
as
it would become public pretty fast.
There is still the danger of key-grabbing, so they should release the
complete source code (and not only the algorithmic section as
distributed.net
does)

EyeMix

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