I think i found a relatively big problem in BOINC - Particularly for small projects . It can achieve data quorum from workunits from the same computer

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2018-01-21 22:24

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https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/workunit.php?wuid=3996272

https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/workunit.php?wuid=3996277

https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/workunit.php?wuid=3996278

This is a big deal because it allows a malicious attacker to get credit for fake results, and it can also feed the program bad data, false result happens with every hardware, if you have your cpu or gpu overclocked it can ramp up even further.

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