On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:09:27 +1000, Patrick <blankEmail@blank.com>
wrote:

But I believe the point he was trying to make was how to prove ownership 
of an account. If someone were trying to fake ownership of an account so 
that the seti team would change the password for them, then it would be 
virtually impossible to "guess" the work unit that is currently being 
processed by the account, regardless of the fact that several people 
around the world may have the unit.

Of course the only downfall is in circumstances, say I view a friends 
computer, check which work unit he is processing and then email seti 
asking to change the password on my friends account because I know his 
current work unit...
I'm sure you could work something out though

But if you knew the email you could just log on using their email
address and then YOU have the current unit!
That is how us "farmers" do it, we have many computers all logged on
using one email account. In my case 17 computers, some have more, some
have less.