OK, here goes nothing:
For a while now I have been suspecting someone quite near to me of being The Phantom Flusher y'all are so worried about. If I'm right about him being our guy, there's no need to worry, because he's just being funny in his own weird perfectionist sysadmaniacal way and it's no trojan.
Reasons for me to suspect him:
It started exactly 2 days (!) after me pointing him to all this RC5 stuff, me pointing him to THIS forum *and* asking him to check it out and join the Dutch Power Cows. In fact, I mailed him 2 URLs, that of dpc.tweakers.net and that of this here forum. He was not aware of dnet's existence until that day. So: A coincidence? I think not, especially since your calculations in the long thread about PhF are about right for the amount of power I know he can get his hands on. He replied very enthusiastically about both URLs, by the way.
The next day I also handed him a floppy (he still uses them), one of my ini-files and the latest win32 dnetc.exe were on it, I asked him to put that on his machines and leave the emailaddress alone ;-) but to no avail. When I saw him again later that week he told me he had been "real busy with it all" but didn't use my emailaddress.
He said he'd put all machines he's got control over "on it, cracking the key", as he called it. There are just about as many 700Mc dual-processor servers among them as it would take for this to happen.
I then asked him if he'd joined DPC, like I told him to, and he said:
"No I don't like that, I'm more of a loner so I decided to have some fun with them." I asked him what the hell he meant by that, and he just smiled to me and said: "If I told you, it would spoil all the fun." (all in dutch of course) and he refused to give me any more info
The fact that it seems to be my 'fault' he's doing this
kind of forced me to tell you about it. Ever since I knew he's been flushing I had also been looking for his name at distributed.net, but it still isn't there! I think I know all online names he uses, so I asked myself where all those blocks would go.. See what I mean?
I also know where he works (where the machines are) but for now I'll protect his identity until he comes forward about it himself. His attitude seems to tell me he has that planned anyway..
I will not contact dnet about him, since they will see the IP-addresses he uses and hopefully by now will have figured out that it's just a fun guy with no bad intentions for both our teams...
All I can say is: Happy to have been of service?
http://people.a2000.nl/jthijsse/angryservice.mp3
and knowing him a little I can tell you it fits his personality
to not want to have any fame or credit for it. He gets paid
extremely well and doesn't need the money
For a while now I have been suspecting someone quite near to me of being The Phantom Flusher y'all are so worried about. If I'm right about him being our guy, there's no need to worry, because he's just being funny in his own weird perfectionist sysadmaniacal way and it's no trojan.
Reasons for me to suspect him:
It started exactly 2 days (!) after me pointing him to all this RC5 stuff, me pointing him to THIS forum *and* asking him to check it out and join the Dutch Power Cows. In fact, I mailed him 2 URLs, that of dpc.tweakers.net and that of this here forum. He was not aware of dnet's existence until that day. So: A coincidence? I think not, especially since your calculations in the long thread about PhF are about right for the amount of power I know he can get his hands on. He replied very enthusiastically about both URLs, by the way.
The next day I also handed him a floppy (he still uses them), one of my ini-files and the latest win32 dnetc.exe were on it, I asked him to put that on his machines and leave the emailaddress alone ;-) but to no avail. When I saw him again later that week he told me he had been "real busy with it all" but didn't use my emailaddress.
He said he'd put all machines he's got control over "on it, cracking the key", as he called it. There are just about as many 700Mc dual-processor servers among them as it would take for this to happen.
I then asked him if he'd joined DPC, like I told him to, and he said:
"No I don't like that, I'm more of a loner so I decided to have some fun with them." I asked him what the hell he meant by that, and he just smiled to me and said: "If I told you, it would spoil all the fun." (all in dutch of course) and he refused to give me any more info
The fact that it seems to be my 'fault' he's doing this
kind of forced me to tell you about it. Ever since I knew he's been flushing I had also been looking for his name at distributed.net, but it still isn't there! I think I know all online names he uses, so I asked myself where all those blocks would go.. See what I mean?
I also know where he works (where the machines are) but for now I'll protect his identity until he comes forward about it himself. His attitude seems to tell me he has that planned anyway..
I will not contact dnet about him, since they will see the IP-addresses he uses and hopefully by now will have figured out that it's just a fun guy with no bad intentions for both our teams...
All I can say is: Happy to have been of service?
http://people.a2000.nl/jthijsse/angryservice.mp3
and knowing him a little I can tell you it fits his personality
to not want to have any fame or credit for it. He gets paid
extremely well and doesn't need the money