From: Bruce Marshall <brucem@wichita.fn.net>

However, I do feel that you may have a valid point when switching "hackers" to "opponents of the research." Anyone with an interest in preventing or slowing down the progress in such a project would be more dangerous in my mind than your average hacker.

Preventing that from happening would be necessary if it is decided that such a threat truly exists.

Actually, people would also have a motivation to turn in false results if they were being paid (perhaps in ecash) for their computer time. If they could take less time and turn in a supposedly correct job, they would be able to be paid the same amount for less work. Fortunately, it does appear possible to filter out bad ones. In creating such a paid system, keeping this possibility in mind would be needed. -Allen