In article <20050611.1341.7002snz@rijhwani.org>,
Raj Rijhwani <raj@rijhwani.org> wrote:

In my eyes Anderson's been tainted by his effort to milk the S@h distributed 
computing experience for personal commercial gain, and that taints the whole 
project all the more.  I no longer trust the infrastructure, and the core 
development.

That's the *stated* agenda.  And very plausible it is.  BUT it opens the 
door to other possibilities.  (Which should not be mistaken for suggesting 
that there *are* other possibilites.  It's merely an awareness that there 
may be, and that you and I are in no position to know conclusively one 
way or the other.)

But both the boinc core program and the seti-boinc client program are
now open source.  While that's not a total guarantee that fake binaries,
etc, don't get distributed it's a fairly good protection - we can be
sure that *someone* will have examined and recompiled the code and would
scream if there were nasties.

Indeed the failure of the "classic" version to be open source, and it's
vulnerability to it being reverse-engineered and for false "results" to
be returned were, as I understand it, one of the driving forces behind
the new development.  There were complaints both from people with
worries such as yours and from people who complained about the
techniques that appeared to be used and who felt that the resources
donated weren't having the best use made of them.

-- 
John F Hall