Raj Rijhwani wrote:

What bothers me is something a little more fundamental:

"BOINC makes it possible for us to release new versions of SETI@home
without requiring you to download and install new software."

Grrreat.  So I have to hand over my flops to a modules which they
distribute at will?

i'd like to imagine that will be an option you can disable.
if not, they're gonna lose a lot more resources than the tiny drops that
individual home users represent. it would be unacceptable to run this
kind of a security risk on any larger network.

rgds,
netcat