Cheating at Seti (again)

[RichL]

I first heard of this ages ago, before I started running Seti on my systems, so didnt take any notice.

Looks like allegations of cheating have raised their ugly heads again. Is this why Seti@MURC seems to have so few active users? I've gone from 700th place to 400th place inside a week!

FWIW, theres a petition to Seti to sort the cheats out at :

http://www.teamprimerib.com/seti/

[Guru]

Re: Cheating at Seti (again)

Originally posted by RichL
I first heard of this ages ago, before I started running Seti on my systems, so didnt take any notice.

Looks like allegations of cheating have raised their ugly heads again. Is this why Seti@MURC seems to have so few active users? I've gone from 700th place to 400th place inside a week!

FWIW, theres a petition to Seti to sort the cheats out at :
http://www.teamprimerib.com/seti/

New cheats?

Give us a link and well post some info on http://www.distributedatmurc.co.uk/

[High_Jumbllama]

Not new.
It's just the same old techniques that cannot be checked against due to the large amount of data.

[Guru]

Cheating Update

Finally the admins from SETI@home have started to do something about the cheater accounts. Rickman, leader of SETI@Netherlands, got this email from Dr. David P. Anderson, Project Director :



Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
It's taken us a while to get around to it,
but we'll deal with these guys.
The first one is definitely a cheater - out of 600K
results there were only 10K unique workunits.
We zeroed out his account.

-- David

Older info here http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/sec...0269509,00.htm