[texas booster]

Hey it's only geekspeak! Of course my head spins when I read about the results posted on the Stanford U Folding @ Home pages, such as here:

http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html

Basically we have all teamed together to run a "screensaver" that spends idle time on our computers folding protiens. On one hands we get to help out the world by advancing medecine. On the other hand we compete to see who is #1 in folding protiens.

Kinda neat thing to do when the average system runs at idle over half of the time.

[RebelTex]

"Basically we have all teamed together to run a "screensaver" that spends idle time on our computers folding protiens. On one hands we get to help out the world by advancing medecine. On the other hand we compete to see who is #1 in folding protiens."

Questions:

1. How is security handled so as to prevent hackers and invasion of privacy, ID theft, etc.?
2. What safeguards are in place to prevent the data generated from falling into the wrong hands, say terrorists?
3. How will the generated data ultimately be used?
4. Can military (either ours or theirs) applications be developed from this?
5. Can participation be controlled and/or terminated by end-user at any time?

Just wondering.

RT