If I'm going to sell my CPU time, I'm assuming I'm going to be selling some of my memory and hard disk space. What guarantee to I have of the validity and integrity of the code I'd be running? How do I know it's not some super virus of doom that's going to assimilate me and my roommate and e-mail itself home and assimilate my dog?
Okay, that's a silly question, but can't spy-ware companies buy my CPU time and make the right system calls to get my name, phone number, etc of my comptuer the same way they do now? Or would it be done with something similar to Java that won't have access to main memory and also be terribly terribly slow?
I'd be willing to sell my CPU time to my friends in exchange for free pizza or to SETI or Folding just because it's cool, but not to strangers.
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If I'm going to sell my CPU time, I'm assuming I'm going to be selling some of my memory and hard disk space. What guarantee to I have of the validity and integrity of the code I'd be running? How do I know it's not some super virus of doom that's going to assimilate me and my roommate and e-mail itself home and assimilate my dog?
Okay, that's a silly question, but can't spy-ware companies buy my CPU time and make the right system calls to get my name, phone number, etc of my comptuer the same way they do now? Or would it be done with something similar to Java that won't have access to main memory and also be terribly terribly slow?
I'd be willing to sell my CPU time to my friends in exchange for free pizza or to SETI or Folding just because it's cool, but not to strangers.