Be careful what you download, even if it is claimed that it is for a good cause. It wouldn't be the first time someone has misused a time of crisis to gain profit for themselves. Not saying that is the case here but like always: "Don't trust. Verify"!
I agree with that. Of course that is good and noble thing to support such initiative to fight corona virus but we also need to think about security and safety in the cyber world, so check everything before you start to download something on your computer.
Agree with it. Who knows what actually happens behind the scenes until they provide a public display of their process.
You never know if they are actually using the CPU/GPU power for data analytics or mining cryptocurrencies.
We should research in detail and verify before we actually take part in it.
It's a really old project and you can look it up yourself... which I would hope anyone would self-verify on their own.
I'll admit, I have no true idea of what happens behind the scenes, but there have been hundreds verifying the datalogs and this is a super old method (I myself used Seti@Home and then IBM's World Community Grid for very long time as well on a project related to mapping the human genome project.
It also existed long before crypto mining so... maybe it doesn't deserve this level of criticism.
Welcome @iasenko!
He has no idea what he's talking about. These kinds of posts are only made because of their signature campaigns.