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tgkprog
Cruncher Joined: May 3, 2007 Post Count: 15 Status: Offline |
i was trying to convice some people to use UD on orkut
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=326094...5717100491504&start=1 i was asked 1. How can I be sure this is not Spyware? i answered with that i have anti spyware and that can there are 1000s of people running it ... i was wondering if anyone has some public figures of independant testing (by an individial/ organisation) ? thank you |
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Former Member
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You eith trust IBM or you don't....there are not many companies larger than them.
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Former Member
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BOINC was security audited by IBM before being made the official World Community Grid software.
Support is being withdrawn for the UD agent. |
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Former Member
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Hello tgkprog,
i was wondering if anyone has some public figures of independant testing (by an individial/ organisation) ? Al Bunshaft, IBM's vice president of Grid computing, has an article in the 22 November 2004 issue of GRIDtoday * http://www.gridtoday.com/04/1122/104295.html ) which says that IBM did a security audit of the UD client. IBM security audits every application on the World Community Grid. Lawrence |
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tgkprog
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thank you Lawrence!
Tushar |
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Former Member
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So did you convince them?
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crooks_uk
Veteran Cruncher England Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Post Count: 1013 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I previously worked for the NHS and they will not run the grid agent for similar concerns. They also stated that their code of connection to NHS Net (N3 as it is now) prevents running the application. Is this correct, and if so, is there anything that could be done to resolve this.
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