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Not the attack vector I was thinking of. BOINC lists several, the main one I was thinking of was is a version of one they mention: hackers can create fake projects to deliver malware. I'm thinking of a hacker hacking his organization's legitimate project.

TBF in 16 years with millions of computer-hours they've not had an incident. That they know of.
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about_them_facts 1y ago

> TBF in 16 years with millions of computer-hours they've not had an incident. That they know of.

If somebody broke into a BOINC project and distributed malware, it would be known. People watch their BOINC executables very closely, it is a passionate community with many netsec and compsec people in it.

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