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Subject: Re: NPR discusses using email to force computers to calculate

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:56:37 09/01/01

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On August 31, 2001 at 10:09:47, Ed Panek wrote:

> The other day while driving home from work and listening to NPR(National Public
>Radio) the discussion was about a group of scientists at MIT who had succesfully
>tricked thousands of computers into performing very deep calculations for them
>and receiving the results with no assistance or agreement from the computer
>owners. The only catch was the computers needed to be online all the time. I
>only caught the end of this discussion. Does anyone know about such an
>experiment?
>
>
>  I am not sure about any laws regarding this. Could computer chess use this?
>
>
>Ed

Even if you write spyware that uploads new versions that calculate, then
still the use of that would be relatively little.

ONly for CAP it would make sense, for a combined search to do deep
searches it would not make sense.

This apart from the legal question: "is it legal to do this?"

I don't think so. If MIT would search on my machine i would sue them
for a load of money.





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