On 12/27/2014 01:19 PM, teor wrote: > Some thoughts on the security of crowdsourced computing: > > Installing additional software increases the attack surface of your > relay, even more so when the new software access the network. (Not to > mention any additional libraries.) There is also the issue of the > security of automatic updates to the any executables - Folding@home may > have less of an issue with this than BOINC, as there is only one project > involved. >
Right on cue maybe somebody can comment on this ? : http://www.zwiebeltoralf.de/torserver/cep2/index.html > If you're willing to accept the additional risk, it seems like a worthy > cause. > > (There's also a minor additional power cost, which really only impacts > your provider and the environment…) > >> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 12:54:24 +0100 >> From: mikael <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> >> Hi, >> some years ago I contributed to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/ >> via BOINC (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) but stoped. >> Forgive my paranoia, but I couldn't find proof that it really helps what >> they write, that the provided cpu power could doesn't land at NSA for >> example :/ >> >> Any different experience? >> >>> On 12/26/14 6:55 PM, Sebastian Urbach wrote: >>> Dear list members, >>> >>> I would like to invite any operator, who has some idle Cores (CPU or >>> GPU) left,to join the folding@home distributed computing project: >>> >>> http://folding.stanford.edu/ >>> >>> There is now a brandnew team called Tor Project (Unofficial) with the >>> id 227615. Hope to see some of you there :-) >>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > -- Toralf pgp key: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 0076 E94E _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
