At 14:09 -0700 2004-09-23, Jay Bryon wrote:
>The effect is negligible for the network. The downloads are the
>only impact, and as previously mentioned, they're not big or
>frequent.
As an unrelated aside, 17 or 18 employees of the Tennessee Valley
Authority were apparently either admonished or fired - reports of the
number of employees and their fate differ - in 2001 for running
SETI@Home on their work computers, apparently due to some vague
security concerns on the part of the TVA's Inspector General office:
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=ALIENSEARCH-06-18-01
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1782050.stm
While that action has been widely viewed as Draconian and
misguided, it should be noted that there has been at least one
potentially serious vulnerability identified in this screensaver,
back in 2003, which was quickly patched:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,2133025,00.htm
The bottom line: manage it like any other application, and be aware
that security-related updates may be required. And if your next job
happens to be with the TVA, check with the higher-ups there before
running it :-).
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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