Project Dolphin... anyone participating???

[DaFinn]

Get in here...

Does this count as "Distributed Computing" project???

I'm sure Team AT would fare quite well, + it takes absolutely NO resources away from your other DC projects!!! :Q

Anyways, its a small program that keeps track of your keystrokes. It allows you to compare with others to see how u doing... You can also set up teams to compete with others and such.

 

[amdxborg]

mm Interesting! Maybe I'll give it a try..

I see the TeAm is here and was created by D347h.. Haven't seen him here in a while, he used to be very active in DPAD..

 

[petrusbroder]

I just joined - and I joined my daughter too - she types a lot while chatting with her friends, that may add to the stats. She even does her smileys by typing ...

OTOH: a small concern: could this not be the perfect keystroke-logger and catch a lot of passwords - it would not take a lot of bytes of code to get that done. I have as yet not read about this on the home - page. I have e-mailed the project manager about this and asked about the program ... I'll post his answer when it arrives. If it does not within 5 days I'll take the program off my comps and change all my passwords.

 

[TurtleBlue]

:evil: Smells like a major Hacker scam to me! Count me out!!! I have no proof of this, but is TeAm that gullible? :evil:

 

[BlackMountainCow]

No offense to that projects, but I'll never allow anybody to log my keystrokes! All the time people talk about virus scanners, trojans, adware, spybots, bot nets and so on and do everything to keep their systems clean and then: Download a keylogger! LOL :roll:

 

[petrusbroder]

Now: Hold your horses - until now there is no evidence that this is a keystroke logger. Lets see what the guy responsible for the project answers first ...

I use and have used in this case AdAware (latest version, up-to-date), SpyBot Search & Destroy (latest version, up-to-date), Microsoft AntiSpyware (latest version, up-to-date) and Outpost Pro firewall (latest version, up-to-date) which all can intercept quite a few outgoing sensitive data and none of them react in any way. AdAware and MS-AS block any program which transmits key strokes (I have tried it) - since this is regarded as one of the most threatening behaviors of a program. My firewall is configured in a way that I have to grant permission for a program to send anything at all to a specific server (not like most firewalls where you ususally allow and explicitly forbid). E.g. when submitting this post, the firewall ask me if I really want to send this to the forum ... It is somewhat of a pia but at least I know what goes out ... and it takes only one mouse click

Thus Project Dolphin must have written a program which is really smart not to be detected by any of the three best anti-spyware programs (I have AdAware and MS AS resident and running).

Since the project has been running for quite some time (more than a year) there should be plenty of time for the anti-spyware-guys to have caught it, especially since Project Dolphin in no way has kept themselves secret.

So: until there is some real evidence of malware, lets not accuse them of anything. They may be legit, and my testing has not shown any evidence to the opposite.

If I am wrong, I will apologize and set the record right. Until then I recommend each and everyone to act as the see it fit and not download the program unless they trust it.

 

[Freewolf]

Don't see any good use of this myself.

 

[trevinom]

No 'farms' for this project. I can't find any redeeming qualities for what they are doing. What value can be derived by the number of keystrokes I go through in a given day?

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: trevinom
No 'farms' for this project. I can't find any redeeming qualities for what they are doing. What value can be derived by the number of keystrokes I go through in a given day?

I agree! What's the point of this?

 

[Ronin]

ronincs is in 2709th place.

ronincs has been a participant since 2004-03-15, and in that time has typed 9,245,184 keys in total.
This user last sent a pulse to this server on 2005-11-07 19:45:51.
ronincs lives in United States of America.

 

[petrusbroder]

Parhaps no point, but a lot of fun - a good joke - laughter - extends life expectancy! That is a proven fact!
Great Ronin!
Any problems during this time? :Q

 

[Ronin]

None at all. Just shows me how much I type on a given machine is all.

 

[trevinom]

boy, if you raise chickens, you can set up your 'farm' in a chicken coop and put a bunch of rice on your keyboards. You'd generate a bunch 'keystrokes' in a very short period of time

 

[Ronin]

Nah..just pull a Homer.

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: trevinom
boy, if you raise chickens, you can set up your 'farm' in a chicken coop and put a bunch of rice on your keyboards. You'd generate a bunch 'keystrokes' in a very short period of time

Won't work. They seem to have a smart algorythm which guestimates if someone is cheating. That account is then blocked. I mean: If some has 300 hits a minute (the fastest typist I think can do some 120 - 180 keystokes per minute) ...

 

[Ronin]

I type 120-130WPM. That's a lot more than 180 keystrokes, unless I'm typing really small words.