Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:37:24 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus Message-ID: <20200320083724.Horde.mJP7Uiof0Nh1J0qOg9dHt-v@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20200320070112.GA2704@c720-r342378> References: <20200319085745.Horde.yAf5603LMT07oVm8NR1Abs6@webmail.leidinger.net> <20200320070112.GA2704@c720-r342378>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Quoting Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> (from Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:01:12 +0100): > El día jueves, marzo 19, 2020 a las 08:57:45a. m. +0100, Alexander > Leidinger escribió: > >> Hi, >> >> if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the >> fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of >> installing the Folding@Home client on FreeBSD: >> >> https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/ >> >> I tested this on a recent -current. > > Alexander, > > As far as I understand, the binary(!) tool pulls tasks from the net and > communicates the results back over net, correct? > > What about the security aspect of this? This is correct. And a malicious person may distribute malware to you. If e.g. the group behind emotet would be able to infiltrate the servers of the project and inject their malicious payload somehow, it would be a big disaster (as there are even science organisations / universities / ... participating as far as I understand it). Personally I have this binary running on FreeBSD in a jail, but also on a Windows laptop. This is something were everyone needs to do their risk-management on their own. Currently with the Corona-virus I consider for myself the benefit of participating with a lot resources more important than the risk (on the laptop). When the current situation normalizes, I probably stop the client on the laptop, but will let it run in the jail (with less resources donated to it). YMMV. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander@Leidinger.net: PGP 0x8F31830F9F2772BF http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild@FreeBSD.org : PGP 0x8F31830F9F2772BF [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJedHK0AAoJEBINsJsD+NiGGM0P/R7TGi1yf90lsnUk9bUDGbHm BI/VHKM+xS3aoucm7tgLrmY+T1nuPjZ1pUhKFZeIrNmMV1xWvOH9WwdWaWWTbt6P pF2orDVXz7vtYQXjbBm90774fR7lCSXDBlNFpm1+1Gri3rnncDAt/Vfij1Kne7NQ d50q2MNMFJFzmLWBbRfr96gfgFa52ZnbaPZLzoKlQ/9LXERseFXW7ZxKhkz2TajA rz/iMrkMAyTCe40Y6fou698eK2An3w47gvfOpvBKf5BMAfQiF2DOiySFaule7fM1 +ieaL192qtbqSqbnenPRiJdi6+SB0oCa9afDLMpzAlntYN7IPB8NiiJ2nZfPd3qC +dCWXBhf0QwjdjycAKK2o6A2SA3ZmWsPDtlW7UU7/jvB728BTboWQOvggUsVmbUB Eck58pdIFptyd/bwi3qYGNwA8+RxKDD8f7lfUhlNU/ixybqJgbCyafV4RwjfAUAb Qyq2KUArKHNY6s5pkiZoPPmuNrQph8Tfqa3yAIQP5MJCTpfJmdL2YH8IB6O50UCl HdNHg8RakhxMJEagHpmTbCcBMNHjPSLL6jFZrvY3GrziuStK/Jxe8JxtyTOZoxL+ tlQ08g2bDZpZPcgbNZ/sJ2ZRfPpM3BsNs1Yo/DLX3rXOVjTi8hAxTaxEtWZCN6LY ozwFwn8wDiVyjND+z7N1 =anKX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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