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Distributed.net Captures Laptop Thieves.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cracking-crypto-keys-helps-stop-crime dept.

Octal writes "According to this story, there is a little-known advantage to running a distributed.net client from your start-up script. On two separate occasions, laptops have been stolen, and then returned, by tracing the IPs of rc5des clients that criminals forgot to remove."

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  1. Re:No by Fastolfe · · Score: 3

    You're totally right. All closed source software is inherently EVIL, and all companies who release closed-source software are themselves spawns of satan.

    Who cares if we have to make all of our software cryptographically secure if we want to be able to trust their output? Who cares if this security HALVES the performance of CPU-critical tasks like D.net? OpenSource is always good, and if making programs cryptographically secure is the only way for OpenSource programs to give us trustable, reliable results, then by golly that's the way it must be done, because OpenSource is the True Path. OpenSource is the Light. Programming to pay bills is the path of the Dark. Fear the Dark. Oppress the Dark. Closed-source programming is the path of Evil. All evil must be destroyed.