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Originally posted by Joe
if you arent an admin on the network you prolly shouldnt be installing software all over anyway 
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I cannot stress enough that if you DO NOT have permission to install the client then DO NOT DO IT! I have been crunching Distributed Computing Projects for 3 years now and see people loose their jobs, get fines, fired, ect...
Here is an example (I would have posted a link to it but it is full of pop-ups):
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The crime of distributed computing
Posted by CD Freaks on 22 December 2001 - 09:23
As everyone knows, I do the RC5 stats for CD Freaks and love helping out the team. I was even once going to install the client on the computers at my school a few years back, since they do nothing all day, but reboot constantly (Windows 98 ). Well it turns out, some one else had the same train of thought, though they were a PC specialist fixing some college computers.
David McOwen was working as a PC specialist at the state-run DeKalb Technical Institute in 1998, when he learned about a project by the non-profit organization distributed.net that allowed computer users to donate their unused processing power to test the RC5 encryption algorithm. Noticing that many of the machines he maintained on the seven DeKalb campuses sat idle for long periods, McOwen installed distributed.net clients at several of those locations while performing a Y2K upgrade on the machines in 1999.
According to McOwen, during the Christmas holidays in 1999 school administrators noticed that unused machines were sending and receiving the distributed.net data -- about the equivalent of one email a day. The school sent McOwen a letter of suspension in January of 2000, without specifying a grievance, and McOwen resigned shortly afterwards, believing that he had put the incident behind him.
Instead, in June of 2001 McOwen was contacted by an investigator from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who informed him that he was the subject of an 18-month computer crime investigation. In October, prosecutors from the Georgia state attorney general's office charged McOwen with eight violations of Georgia's tough computer crime law: one count of computer theft, and seven counts of computer trespass -- one for each of the school offices where McOwen downloaded the distributed.net client.
Each felony count carries a $50,000 fine and a 15-year possible prison term, for a 120 year maximum possible sentence. The indictment also calls for restitution equal to the amount of money paid to state workers to uninstall the programs from 500 PCs.
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