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Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power
Mar 15^th, 2020 at 10:40am

Help fight this disease and effective drug research with your spare computing power.
Apparently if you choose the "Any Disease" option Covid-19 research is prioritized. The project is based at Stanford University and Stanford University Medical Center USA.

"Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world. Thousands of people contribute to the success of this project."

https://foldingathome.org/

https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 14916 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power Reply #1 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 10:51am Fight a medical virus by opening your computer to the risk of a computer virus? Yeah, nah.
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Reply #2 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 10:58am

Why take advice from nations more apt at winning Wars and practicing incompetent Medical initiatives unless it is to rip-off the Public for Government revenue with expensive participation?

We all know that if every nation had the same Medical 'finance' both in cost and outlay... USA, UK & Aust (Western) would be in the bottom half. Grin

China 'should' be Medically better, but currently it is heavily Military... but that should shrink to a dwarf star status after it's soon to be Super Nova effect.

Prevention is better than the Cure and thus people with good immune systems just 'carry' the Corona while all the Military/Political/Junkies/Alcoholics are gonna drop like flies to a turd.

Let the Corona Cull begin!!!
Time to cleanse the World from all the 'Filth' that is destroying it.

Rejoice!

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Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power
Reply #3 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:26am

Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 15^th, 2020 at 10:51am:

Fight a medical virus by opening your computer to the risk of a computer virus?

Yeah, nah.

Perhaps you chose the wrong user name, because you seem to lack any of the bravery, daring and adventure of your name sake lol.

If you have a good anti-malware apps installed and run them regularly that's half the battle and if you regularly backup system images to an external HDD your siting pretty as far as most vulnerabilities go. On top of that personally I use a linux operating system loaded from a USB for all my highly sensitive operations anyway.

Anyway life's inherently risky and I think some things are worth taking a little extra risk for.

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What about security issues?

We have worked very hard to maintain the best security possible with modern computer science methodology. Our software will upload and download data only from our data server here at Stanford. Also, we only interact with FAH files on your computer (we don’t read, write, or transmit any other files, as we don’t need to do so and doing so would violate our privacy policy). The Cores are also digitally signed (see below) to make sure that you’re getting the true Stanford cores and nothing else.

How is this possible? We take extensive measures to check all of the data entering your computer and the results we send back to Stanford with 2048 bit digital signatures. If the signatures don’t match (on either the input or the output) the client will throw away the data and start again. This ensures, using the best software security measures developed to date (digital signatures and PKI in version 3.0), that we are keeping the tightest possible security. Finally, the clients are available for download only from this web site (or in certain cases, also from our commercial partners such as Sony, NVIDIA, and ATI), so that we can guarantee the integrity of the software. We do not support Folding@home software obtained elsewhere and prohibit others to distribute the software.

https://foldingathome.org/faqs/miscellaneous/what-about-security-issues/

Foldingathome safety ranking information ...
https://rankchart.org/site/foldingathome.org/

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Belgarion Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6141 Gender:	Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power Reply #4 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:31am Because medical researchers always make choices based on on-line polls.
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Reply #5 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:37am

0ktema wrote on Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:26am:

Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 15^th, 2020 at 10:51am:

Fight a medical virus by opening your computer to the risk of a computer virus?

Yeah, nah.

Perhaps you chose the wrong user name, because you seem to lack any of the bravery, daring and adventure of your name sake lol.

If you have a good anti-malware apps installed and run them regularly that's half the battle and if you regularly backup system images to an external HDD your siting pretty as far as most vulnerabilities go. On top of that personally I use a linux operating system loaded from a USB for all my highly sensitive operations anyway.

Anyway life's inherently risky and I think some things are worth taking a little extra risk for.

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What about security issues?

We have worked very hard to maintain the best security possible with modern computer science methodology. Our software will upload and download data only from our data server here at Stanford. Also, we only interact with FAH files on your computer (we don’t read, write, or transmit any other files, as we don’t need to do so and doing so would violate our privacy policy). The Cores are also digitally signed (see below) to make sure that you’re getting the true Stanford cores and nothing else.

How is this possible? We take extensive measures to check all of the data entering your computer and the results we send back to Stanford with 2048 bit digital signatures. If the signatures don’t match (on either the input or the output) the client will throw away the data and start again. This ensures, using the best software security measures developed to date (digital signatures and PKI in version 3.0), that we are keeping the tightest possible security. Finally, the clients are available for download only from this web site (or in certain cases, also from our commercial partners such as Sony, NVIDIA, and ATI), so that we can guarantee the integrity of the software. We do not support Folding@home software obtained elsewhere and prohibit others to distribute the software.

https://foldingathome.org/faqs/miscellaneous/what-about-security-issues/

Foldingathome safety ranking information ...
https://rankchart.org/site/foldingathome.org/

I don't doubt that a medical research facility would take all reasonable measures to avoid computer virus transmission, but I don't like the idea of having my PC semi-permanently connected to a particular ip address. I feel that it could be an opening for hackers not related to the project taking advantage.

So for me .... not going to do it.

Others may, of course, do as they wish.

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Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power
Reply #6 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:43am

Jasin wrote on Mar 15^th, 2020 at 10:58am:

Why take advice from nations more apt at winning Wars and practicing incompetent Medical initiatives unless it is to rip-off the Public for Government revenue with expensive participation?

We all know that if every nation had the same Medical 'finance' both in cost and outlay... USA, UK & Aust (Western) would be in the bottom half. Grin

China 'should' be Medically better, but currently it is heavily Military... but that should shrink to a dwarf star status after it's soon to be Super Nova effect.

Prevention is better than the Cure and thus people with good immune systems just 'carry' the Corona while all the Military/Political/Junkies/Alcoholics are gonna drop like flies to a turd.

Let the Corona Cull begin!!!
Time to cleanse the World from all the 'Filth' that is destroying it.

Rejoice!

While the kerbing some aspects of natural selection, through the use of modern medicine, does hold reason for concern.
I feel it's inevitable that some sort of gene tweaking will become the norm in the future, thus once again strengthening the gene pool.

Fixing people rater than eliminating them seems the the more gracious thing to do - and we are fast developing this very capability!

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Reply #7 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:43am

You are right Captain Caveman (but Oktema did pull out a good one on you namesake. Grin

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There is no 'real' security out there that does a complete job, not even the best most expensive one. Everything can be hacked and does.
I never do APPS (as advised by an ASIO connection) - that's like leaving your house windows open or unlocked. I've often waited inside Banks listening to the person before me at the Teller explain their $15,000 loss via an APP hack. Roll Eyes

Everything promoted via the Internet (like the Media) is designed to 'take your money'. Some people just can't say no and the 'technological guinea-pigs' are the worse.

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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 14916 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power Reply #8 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:55am Correction ... I'm Nemo ... not Caveman. Neither related to, known to nor a "sock" of anyone else here.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 56770 Gender:	Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power Reply #9 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 12:12pm Captain Nemo wrote on Mar 15^th, 2020 at 11:55am: Correction ... I'm Nemo ... not Caveman. Neither related to, known to nor a "sock" of anyone else here. Aye Captain. My bad.
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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 14916 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Help Fight Covid-19 with Your Spare Computer Power Reply #10 - Mar 15^th, 2020 at 12:28pm No worries.
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