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hallen said:I can't see what's so sacred about the results that someone at Berkeley couldn't burn some teams results to settle any allegations of cheating. It's like drug testing in sports.
SETI@home director David Anderson announced SETI@home would do its best to investigate users returning suspiciously high amounts of work and delete their accounts if it uncovered solid evidence of cheating.
The announcement comes after over 800 of the project’s keenest contributors signed a petition demanding that SETI@home administrators act to curb the rorts.
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When asked why SETI@home had decided to act on the problem now Anderson said that he just had found some "spare time" to work on it.
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Anderson said last month that SETI@home’s project designers were in the midst of finalinsing a deal to secure new funding.