On Tuesday, in article <8Daxc.65897$OI5.12243@edtnps84>
     SetiCruncher@"NOSPAM"WildMail.com "Seti Cruncher" wrote:

I Understand your concerns Raj, and feel the same way.  However, given the
security issues Auto-updateing may cause, I would like to believe the SETI
designers would include an option that would allow the user to manually
disable the autoupdate if they choose.

You're missing the point.  I don't *trust* the architecture or the motives 
behind the new project.  S@h was just an academic obsession.  I trust that 
as a motive.  Since then the people who've learnt from our contribution 
to the S@h project have started seeing dollar signs.  There's a whole new 
mind-set involved which goes beyond adademic curiosity and now reaches into 
exploitation.  I no longer trust their motivation, and so I no longer trust 
them not to squirrel something into the project that I won't like, or that 
what the software appears to be doing will be the entirety of what it is 
doing.  It's no longer just a matter of chunking in and out work units with 
a specific (if esoteric) goal in mind.
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