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Cheaters Bow to Peer Pressure - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/02/41838
Discovered hacks to the Seti@home software - some malicious, others not - to make it run faster, to spoof positive results and to make it look more work had been performed to improve leader board rankings, are impeding the progress of the project. [Wired News] |
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The Geeks and the Aliens - http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_06feature.html
Why are the tech industry's best and brightest so determined to spearhead the hunt for extraterrestrials? [Salon] |
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Alien Life Search Inches Forward - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/03/57992
Update on the radio signals from space found by SETI@home. [Wired News] |
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Cheats Wreak Havoc on SETI@home: Participants - http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Cheats-wreak-havoc-on-SETI-home-participants/0,130061744,120269509,00.htm
SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants who are threatening to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects. [ZDNet] |
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Getting Some Alien Experience - http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/08/14174
A Seti@home project overview, by Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News] |