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I'd be worried about offering storage to random people, but what kind of compute are you worried about doing? I guess someone could use this as a kind of proxy
by ALittleLight 6y ago
I'd be worried about offering storage to random people, but what kind of compute are you worried about doing? I guess someone could use this as a kind of proxy, right? Like have your system perform some attack or send some communication.
- sp332 6y agoMaybe brute-forcing passwords?
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago> I'd be worried about offering storage to random people Isn’t that precisely how IPFS works?
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoIPFS mostly functions with people choosing specific files to keep available.
- geocrasher 6y agoComputing generally implies even temporary storage, doesn't it? If not then you are correct. Even so, I would be wary of allowing my own equipment to be used for purposes that I did not explicitly approve of. Who's to say my equipment could not be used in legal but distasteful (to me) ways, by companies I'd never otherwise do business with? I don't think that it would be reasonable to trust any distributed computing for hire company to honor my wishes when it came to those things. If history has taught us anything, especially when it comes to computers, it is that the almighty dollar rules over all else.