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Alien Life Search Inches Forward
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57992,00.html
Update on the radio signals from space found by SETI@home. [Wired News]
Cheaters Bow to Peer Pressure
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41838,00.html
Discovered hacks to the Seti@home software - some malicious, others not - to make it run faster, to spoof positive results and to make it look more work had been performed to improve leader board rankings, are impeding the progress of the project. [Wired News]
Cheats Wreak Havoc on SETI@home: Participants
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20269509,00.htm
SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring claims that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants who are threatening to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects. [ZDNet]
Getting Some Alien Experience
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,14174,00.html
A Seti@home project overview, by Jennifer Sullivan. [Wired News]
Seti: Is Anybody Out There?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40801,00.html
Overview of the Seti@home project's accomplishments and future plans. [Wired News]
The Geeks and the Aliens
http://dir.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/cov_06feature.html
Why are the tech industry's best and brightest so determined to spearhead the hunt for extraterrestrials? [Salon]
Thousands spammed by Seti@home hackers
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1122333
Hackers have escaped with around 50,000 email addresses, after the Seti@home project was hacked. [vnunet.com]