just a what if/maybe....

[R.Rabbit]

ok i know lots of you are agianst this but its for the cure!, ok at my school we just got about 500 new pc's with 1ghz p3's and they're hooked up on a pretty loose network, i've got a hacker freind that know's all the passwords in the school and in a couple months i should have access to the main server for the school with with my friend's help i could probly get all these pc's folding!, now theres also the non illegal approach of asking but that's lame, well anyhow if i were to go the legal/illegal approach how could i go about it?

[Loud]

Get permission -in writing- first.

End of chat.

[slater3333uk]

Im not going to state my oppinion of this but i dont think you should be discussing illegal activitys (such as hacking etc.) on these forums. As far as im aware its strictly against the rules.

[Deathknight]

Even if it was not against the rules I would have issues for several reasons. If some big school found these things they could end up blaming the f@h project itself for being a worm or something. It could cause alot of legal issues for them I would think.

Personally I would even have a hard time being part of a team that would condone something like this. Why not just go ask the school and try to raise awareness of the problem and the fact that there is people out there trying to find a cure. You might end up getting those machines folding + get alot more people in the school on board too.

[nikhsub1]

R.Rabbit, Please get permission! If you got caught, you would most probably get expelled, and you could go to jail :eek: It is not worth the risk. Plus, as stated, it would give the WHOLE FAH project a bad name if you were to get caught installing it without permission.

[vonkaar]

ANY negative press is bad for F@H... and distributed computing in general. If network admins all over started hearing about the competitive spirit that SOME OF YOU are so obviously guilty of, it might become 'standard practise' for people to block F@H at the firewall level. We want everyone to 'accept' F@H as a non-intrusive program that is ran and supported by trustworthy people who worship Vonkaar.

[fiji]

yeah, ask them first..


i could see if you put it on like 1 computer, but 500!!


thats pushing it, even though it is for a good coause

[Fast420A]

Don't.

[looktall]

if you did this, not only you, but your team would become dirt in the eyes of all the other folders.

[rommelrommel]

Yeah... installing on a computer without permission is bad enough but hacking passwords and stuff like that is VERY bad.

[flixotide]

Read the sig....

[xsquared_uk]

Besides which, it's unlikely to work unless you have the proxy details plus the firewall is open on 8080 and if that's not then your mate probably can't do anything about that without access to the server itself or telnet password which is bound to be different.

[pik4chu]

Originally posted by Deathknight
Even if it was not against the rules I would have issues for several reasons. If some big school found these things they could end up blaming the f@h project itself for being a worm or something. It could cause alot of legal issues for them I would think.

Personally I would even have a hard time being part of a team that would condone something like this. Why not just go ask the school and try to raise awareness of the problem and the fact that there is people out there trying to find a cure. You might end up getting those machines folding + get alot more people in the school on board too.

it would be horrible for F@H and overclockers.com for the bad press related to issues they have with the client. I inted to ask the training center I goto to see if they will add the client to thier disk images (that would be a few hundred P3 700/P4 2.8/3.0 computers folding each week give or take) not to mention it would seriously hinder things, imagine 500 clients uploading and downloading WUs every so often. if a lot happened at once it could hurt performance.
There are things Ive done with school computers but borging them is not one of them and never will be. (I may ask them too, heh)