The BOINC development team does not and cannot stop anybody from setting up a project like that. All they would have to do is create some fancy graphics, and most people wouldn't know that the worker application was sending out spam or searching the hard drive for Microsoft Money or Quickbooks files. What would happen if some hacker group created a project that promised that they could find the cure for cancer in 18 months? There is a significant portion of the BOINC community that signs up to whatever the new project is. Starting with Windows Vista they force the issue by creating a hidden virtual file system for any program that attempts to write or modify files in the C:\Program Files\ directory structure.Ģ) Why does it need to create new user groups and accounts without asking ? Previous versions of the client did not find this neccessary ?ĭuring the course of a brain storming session at the BOINC Workshop in 2006 we came to the conclusion we had a significant problem. Microsoft has been trying to get application developers to separate the two things for over ten years. It is generally a bad idea to have your data and binaries lumped together in the same directory. Has there been any explanation anywhere (here or on the Beta forum) as to why 6.2.14 has been made so darn complex ?īasically it SUX !! I would like some answers to the following questions.ġ) Why does it have some secret squirrel data directory separate from the main BOINC directory ? Brodo posted these questions on the Forums, but due to technical issues I can't respond to them there.
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