November 11th, 2003, 08:51 AM
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Re: Folding @ Home
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Originally posted by Mephisto:
Regarding trust: How many programs do run on your PC? All of them use your CPU and most of them don't offer you the source code and yet you run them. The risk that such a large project will to something terrible with your PC is rather low IMHO.
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Yes, the risk is actually pretty low - most programmers produce code that is extremely difficult to exploit, and most organizations don't do stuff to your machine that you aren't willing to deal with. And then there is Microsoft, Gator, and numerous others. Yeah, it's a pretty low-risk, but the risk is there.
Oh, and at the moment? I've got about 34 running processes.
[ November 11, 2003, 07:12: Message edited by: Jack Simth ]
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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