Comment Who said you could use that? (Score 1) 612
If processes are given a private place where they can do what they want without being observed, whats to stop those processes from doing things we don't want them to?
What's to stop the manufacturer of our favorite program from using our CPU cycles for their favorite distributed computing project? If we don't know what a process is doing, how can we police it?
Network traffic is a little easier to police, but what is to stop a process from using my bandwidth to create a swarm network for a its own purposes?
What about my hard drive as a mass storage device?
What's to stop the manufacturer of our favorite program from using our CPU cycles for their favorite distributed computing project? If we don't know what a process is doing, how can we police it?
Network traffic is a little easier to police, but what is to stop a process from using my bandwidth to create a swarm network for a its own purposes?
What about my hard drive as a mass storage device?
