On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM,  <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've long thought it would be neat for broadband ISPs to provide a
> netbooted connectivity/hardware testing OS.  It won't corrupt itself
> since you won't be able to change the master image on the server, and
> it could easily be used for web browsing.  Then again, would you trust
> your ISP to execute code on your machines?  I wouldn't.

You could run code on _their_ machines.  There are people who have
recently proven methods of running encrypted computing, to where the
math all works but the host can't decrypt what is being calculated.
They of course will know the algorithm, even if they don't know the
data.

Justin Dugger