Account created, PC is hidden
Anonymous
27 Feb 2005 15:06:00 UTC
Topic 12750
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For those who really doesn't want to have their PC shown, their is still a possibilty to hide afterwards.
AFAIK this is not fully true - external statistic sites will show a machine on your account when they learn about it, and will not remove it from their DB when it is later hidden on Einstein@Home.
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Account created, PC is hidden
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There are many possible reasons for not wanting to show his/her machines or having them associated with even the username.
Some people don't want to be associated with some machines because they're running BOINC on them without explicit permission of the owner (we don't encourage this, but it happens). There might be some machines of a certain type in the world, but if e.g. your company's machine is rather exotic and your username expresses something that your boss can associate with you, you may get into trouble.
Some people are simply worried about companies and organisations that dig the net for any information they can get and sell it to everyone who pays for it. It might be a rather useless piece of information by itself, but may be a valuable piece in a larger picture of you.
Finally it is the right for everyone to give out just the minimal amount of information about himself that is absolutely necessary for the project and without being asked for a reason, and it's the projects responsibility to arrange for this.
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