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On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:40:05 +0300, netcat <netcat@devnull.eridani.eol.ee> wrote:

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.

How is it, really, any more of a security risk than running any other 
closed-source application on your network?

Hell, over 90% of the Internet was still using IE *while* it had a known 
security hole in it allowing the remote execution of code.

People run stuff much less safe than SETI@Home on big networks all the 
time.

-- 
Rob                                |  If not safe,
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