there are numerous applications ...

30 August 2001

there are numerous applications around on the net that you can download and allow to run while your computer isn’t doing anything else to lend your computing power to a bigger project. seti@home is the most well known example. now a way has been found to exploit the checksum procedures that form part of the tcp protocol to harness the power of computers on the net:

parasitic computing represents an ethically challenging alternative for cluster computing, as it uses resources without the consent of the computer’s owner.