TBMS, security not mentioned is not strange. There is already a vm packaged boinc, since over a year. The sword on this cuts like a mach iii gilette, maybe even a mach v. 1) Projects only need developing 1 science app, linux the preferred and deemed most secure, where for lhc it is the only way to compute for them, it's though not for kiddy machines 2) The increased security ambient this carries along 3) A crunching environment restore, so checkpointing becomes kind of a moot point. Restore the vm and the tasks resume where it left off. 4) Fill in the blanks.

Boinc is a sandboxed environment since very long, where wcg is the only one with the additional https layer, to satisfy corporations, some mondial that volunteer their computing resources and official partner in many cases, some under nom de plum.

It's not a secret at all and those who want it can inquire and inform themselves.

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BOINC, the core client, sandboxes the data and science apps by default. An expansion on this is just two clickes away at the 'makers' place of boinc: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_Security . Beyond it's a question of trust. Hook up to some project that no-one knows of, peddled from a location you'd not even go in a kevlar suite, and you're on your own.