On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Matthias Buelow wrote:

> der Mouse writes:
> 
> >I can't take seti@home seriously until they're willing to let me
> >compile my own client binary; I refuse to turn my machines over to
> >(practically) unverifiable and unfixable code.
> 
> <paranoid>
> Especially when what your machines are actually doing is analyzing
> Echelon data for the CIA? ;P
> Now, that would be a great joke, wouldn't it, the U.S. using computing
> resources all over the world, in particular in those countries from
> where they've collected the data by industry espionage in first place.
> </paranoid>
> 
> No, I certainly wouldn't run the stuff, and even if I had source,
> I'd like to know exactly where the data came from.
> 
> --mkb

You want to know how funny this is, I was thinking *exactly* the same
thing!  Just wanted to finish the thread before I replied :-)
Sad to say - #1, I think it would be a brilliant move, and #2, I wouldn't
put it past them.

-Linc.


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