f/f george wrote:

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.

But with BOINC you don't log on via your email addy, you get a rather long
number string you have to enter on set-up, along with the url. An
improvement over S@H1 methinks.

We are talking about BOINC aren't we?
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