Similar goals to Rosetta just a different approach.
Cliffs (sorta) [cut-n-paste from other posts]:
-Team Italy found out about a trojan BOINC installer when an Italian victim contacted them
-Team Italy members contacted Dr David Anderson at boinc
-Team Italy or boinc identified Wate's account
-Dr Anderson (or another member of the boinc team) contacted and informed managers of the affected projects. (PAH perhaps didn't receive this notification, for whatever reason)
- CPDN-admins did some research and connected the account of Wate to this installer, they proved this fact, (though not necessarily the culpability of the user Wate personally)
- They acted on this issue by closing the account and making it impossible for the hijacked machines to recieve new work.
- They as well zeroed the credits of the account with the hijacked machines attached to, i.e. Wates account
- They informed the other projects via fora - Other users spread the news to other projects fora.
The other projects admins acted on behalf of the trojan and relieved the hijacked machines from their unwanted burden. It's irrelevant whether Wate himself or somebody misusing the name Wate hijacked the machines, it's illegal to hijack machines. So they had to be disconnected from the project, and in BOINC this is afaik only possible for the whole account from the projects perspective.
Here nothing happened on behalf of the hijacking. The infected machines were not cut off, the alleged hijacker was crunching undisturbed on pole position in the RAC, and as the other crunchers demanded an explanation for this they were told to shut up.
When they still insisted on a further discussion of this issue, their posts were deleted, they were banned. After they still refused to be gagged, they were told to be an angry mob, to ah heck off to other projects, and not to disturb this fine, quiet, sleeping project with the harsh reality any longer.
If the real person behind the account Wate is really innocent, s/he will probably be very pleased to be disconnected from the criminal trojan programmer, at least I would be. If my account would be misused in the way you still think is possible for W***, I would want all credits wiped out, get another password, account key, user name, just to get every connection between this hijacking and my name wiped out
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