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>Never gave this too strong a consideration until I read a TechRepublic
>article pondering the safety of running distributed computing programs
>on corporate computers. While I discourage our employees from
>installing personal software on company computers and I monitor our
>workstations for unapproved installations, I do not want to be
>completely dictatorial and allow some seemingly innocuous software to be
>installed once I satisfy my own security/licensing/stability issues.
>Seti@Home is one such program. While it is understandable that there
>could be some concern caused by the use of this program because it
>remotely sends and retrieves data for processing, I have never heard of
>SETI being exploited. Any thoughts, opinions, or facts the community
>would like to share would be appreciated.
I don't run SETI@home but recall a couple of years ago that there was once
reports of a vulnerability and exploit using SETI based on user
information in SETI files stored on the user's PC, I believe. See
http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/2001/0501-1.html. Another reference,
http://seti.sentry.net/archive/public/1999/6-99/0195.html, asks a similar
question but you will note no one answered it in the seti mail list.
Regards
counterpol
