Please don't paint me the poster child for creating an insecure client environment. I've neither created, nor suggested any such thing. You may have already had one, and perhaps now you better see it for what it is. Don't shoot the educator.
Running Microsoft's "System Idle Process" will never help cure cancer, AIDS nor Alzheimer's. But running rose...@home just might! http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:19:04 -0800 From: "Lynn W. Taylor" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] How to locate boinccmd on client To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 2/23/2010 10:29 AM, Mark Pottorff wrote: > I wasn't aware that the BOINC project team feels it is necessary to define what projects should and should not do. I thought it was an open community. Now, this is just being snarky. I'm not on the development team, so I'm speaking as an outsider who hopes he's contributed a little once in a while. I expect BOINC to take whatever steps are reasonably available to protect my machine from hacking. That means that project "A" should not be able to run rough-shod across my machine. It should not be able to access files that do not belong to project "A" and it should not be able affect how my machine runs. It's my machine after all -- and my choice. The rest of the discussion has been to define terms like "project" and "account manager" and how, conceptually, they're different. Sounds like the people most likely to write the code are open to extensions to the account manager interface to allow "more management" because that fits what an account manager should do. Not what a project should do, for good or bad. "Open Source" is not the same as insecure -- and open community is not the same as "everything goes." _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
