I've been thinking about security recently, and started questioning the security of a distributed system such as Alchemi.
Is there anything that actually "constrains" the grid environment on a machine so that a user doesn't allow some sort of distributed malware to damage their machine? For instance, an application that reads the files on the machine hosting the Executor, searches for certain files or filetypes (like, password and private key files), and then sends them to a specified address. And maybe even proceeds to break their encryption. Or, an application that creates several threads so that every machine has a copy of the required DLLs, which subsequently proceeds to remove critical system files from every machine. Is there anything to prevent such sort of usage? And if not (since I'm presuming there isn't), how would we go about preventing such damage? Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Alchemi-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-developers
