I don't know about other platforms... but on Gentoo, distcc is restricted to only running a small list of programs (ie gcc). That means you can't just send ran

I don't know about other platforms... but on Gentoo, distcc is restricted to only running a small list of programs (ie gcc). That means you can't just send random commands to the distcc host from your "slow machines". Granted, if your distcc host gets compromised, the compiled output shouldn't be trusted until the server can be reprovisioned.