Re: Folding@home

Je viens de lire la FAQ, et il y a deux petites choses qui me chagrinent : http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#project.source 1) Le code source est fermé pour des raisons qui me semblent ridicules : Unlike many computer projects, the paramount concern is not functionality, but the scientific integrity, and posting the source code in a way that would allow people to reverse engineer the code to produce bogus scientific results would make the whole project pointless. Je comprends leur problème (s'assurer de la validité du résultat), mais je ne vois pas en quoi la fermeture du code source empêche le reverse engineering. 2) Le point sur la sécurité 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. The data server doesn't download any executable code to your computer. Actually, our software is considerably safer than the browser you're using to read this! Encore des gens qui partent du présupposé qu'on utilise Internet Explorer ;-)