The more i think about this the more it scares the heck out of me. This kind of thing ought to be banned outright. EVEN if his intentions are "above board" a simple coding mistake could cause horrendous "code red"/"nimda type problems. What kind of rep would boinc have if anansi caused a mess like that eh? That is the kind of thing that prompts new laws and restrictions on the internet. What if the data gathered is being combed for military or banking sights, or the power grid? A crawler is bound to find them all sooner or later, sooner when you have 300,000 bot-nets working for you. and the returned data may look innocent but a simple bit set or word misspelled on purpose could sever as a flag, and no one would be the wiser. I see no point whatsoever to what the Anansi project is doing - it serves no useful purpose in the way that projects like say Seti or uFluid or PrimeGrid do. This is just a disaster waiting to happen - I urge the boinc team - stay away from it. Boinc has a certain amount of responsibility to ensure it isnt enabling disruptive or illegal internet operations. Eric
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