[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20695.html|The Register]
A US computer consultant faces up to 15 years in jail after installing screensavers on computers at work.
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The 38-year-old did this as part of a contest run by Distributed.net, which started the scheme to try and crack an encryption code by using power from dormant computers worldwide.
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All this could have an adverse effect on distributed computing projects in general, which are usually good and honest ways of improving the universe.
Take for example SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and the project started earlier this year to find a cure for cancer - both of which have teams made up of Register readers, some of whom no doubt use work computers.
I know some people here are into SETI...be careful running it at work