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Recently I've heard about some services like www.kairosplanet.com where you can rent your computer and get paid for it. So, you have to put turned on your computer and someone else is using it for its own activities.
My question is does someone here has some experience with such services? And what if that someone is using your computer for illegal activities like hacking others or stealing someone's data and how can you know that?
Would you rent your computer or recommend someone to do this?

I remember boinc group offering the possibility to "offer" for free a pc and computational power.
But they ask only for a scientific project (like SETI project) and not for any economic idea.
Personally I will never "rent" my pc to any group, just I am bit skeptical about earning possibilities and really advantages about it ;)

I wouldn't do this... If the person using your computer visits illegal sites (CP/snuff/torrents/...) it wouldn't be worth the money if you're dragged out of your house by the police under the eye of your family and neighbors...

If you have a legal contract renting out your computer, you might be able to prove it wasn't you, but still, in my opinion, it wouldn't be worth taking the risk.

I strongly agree that renting your computer could be dangerous and you could have problems with law authorities because of this. And the payment couldn't be that good to be worth of risk. But people are obviously doing it anyway.

It sounds like VPS, but in individual level. I have not come across any this kind of computer rental, but I prefer to have one. That will give me many advantages like having a cheaper VPS if it is come from individual person than the corporate VPS prices.

Don't know who gonna use  such service paying as we can have free cloud storage services from amazon as well as google drive and many more. To surf anonymously and privately TOR browser will be enough and for free encrypted email there are many services.

On the other side who leave their computer for other to use may get into serious trouble due to malware or illegal items being stored in their computers, i haven't tested this or any other similar platforms before as i don't feel secure to do so.

This is the first time i heard this kind of service, i think it is a bad idea to lend your computer, no matter what is the reason, if they do illegal things you will be taking all the responsibilities, and you will be the one they are looking for, so dont lend your computer to stranger, it is a dangerous idea

I'd never lend my computer to anyone. But making a vmware and let someone control that would make sense, except the person would be on the same network, and could cause havoc on my own. so maybe no.

Would require an isolated ESX server to hold the virtual images, and who has that in their own house?

Thanks a lot for letting me know such a service. But, I never want to rent out my computer to anyone else as there will not be any guarantee that my IP address will not be used for any illegal purposes. But, using this services with some proxy IP may generate passive income?

It is, indeed, a bad computer to let somebody use your own computer. I don't even let my friends touch my computer, I just show them stuffs but I don't let them control it, what more would it be when it comes to strangers.

Maybe if this pays well, then you can set up another computer where there isn't a file that links to your personal info at all. Maybe use a different network in it just to make sure that the person renting that computer isn't going to be able to control your computer using the network.

the risk of doing it is higher than the reward. what are they even paying for such a service?
also apart from all the horror stuff others have said about the illegal things that can be done with your computer, there is also the risk of physically damaging your hardware in long term because you are running it for a long time and they are going to over use it like running at full CPU or GPU activity.

Yes right and i am never going to do that just for some income.It can be used by any illegal activities and we must be aware of that and you said it right that not only that risk but also it will cause damaging your hardware if used for long term.

I don't need this service and won't try it even though the reward is very high, I can't trust anyone unknown to me, especially now because there are many threats and many ways of stealing either your money or your personal information, I won't invite anyone to try this service.

I am not sure but I think that maidsafe.net offers a similar service where you provide your computer resources to them and they pay you in tokens.
It is very dangerous and a bad idea to give a stranger access on your PC,I would never do it even if it was a big trusted company and besides the big risk I don't think that the amount of money you earn from this will be significant.

Some of those services pay you for renting your computer in order to store files on your hardware, and some use your CPU computing power after you download a program or scrypt. I would say that many companies and sites provide this service, and not all them are scam, maybe we didn't understand this concept rightly, but really there are people renting their computers for money.
For me, I haven't tried it, but I read on the internet about this service.

This is truly not worth a hassle and possible problems that it can cost.

If I were you I wouldn't put yourself in trouble because they can use 100% of the cpu or gpu and make noise, heat etc which can damage your pc(s), at the other side we can't control what they are doing, maybe they are mining, maybe are DOSS or any other illegal activity.

That's so risky with all of your data is having a chance for getting a stolen and hack. that's the worst service ever for me renting my computer with a lot of my personal data into the another people is i don't know him.

This sounds exceptionally risky because through normal remote access directly to that user's computer and not a virtual machine, could leave someone wide open to having their personal data, (or even bitcoins/other coins if they're using a desktop wallet on that computer,)  stolen. Not to mention the above worries about illegal activities being done and you getting the blame, contract or no.

I have a different opinion about this discussion because this companies does not give your computer details to any individual but make use of your unused disk space to do scientific discoveries or research something like cpu mining.
The problem is whether www.kairosplanet.com is legit or not.

Yes, it is not seeming from public and to public type of business model but it seems they are buying rental contracts from public like Boinc/Gridcoin kind of project.

Personally I do not prefer renting out my computer and other resources because bandwidth is not still available for cheaper prices in my country. I believe that I will not afford with income to be generated for the resources to be consumed.

All the other party needs to do if you rent your computer to them is just install a keylogger into your PC and consider any web or desktop wallet that contains bitcoins left empty. It would take them very little time to steal all your coins or any other important data you may have.

Renting your computer is always a bad idea and it will remain to be like this. We cannot just trust the other party, no matter how respectful their company is.

Urgh. Big NO. I would never ever do this. And I suggest you don't even think about it. Handing over control of your computer to some unknown person? For rental? How much could it possibly pay for anyone to even consider doing this.

We have to be careful of anything we download from the net, we even have to be wary of sites we visit, links we click.
And now, handing over control of your PC to someone over the net, to do with as they please.

It would probably be loaded with virus, malware, bots and who knows what else. Any sensitive info you enter like passwords,emails,banking could be compromised and stolen. Not to mention any other illegal activities they could be doing which traces to you. So not worth it.

The risk of abuse, malwares, stolen data and problems with law enforcement is to big in comparison to some small earning. It's not worth it, better look for some other source of income. The thing that someone wants to borrow your computer when he has all services available online and in cloud it's suspicious itself.

i'd like to see some legal precedents before letting any old psycho loose on my machine. even if that was fine, i'd wanna know how much of my processing power was gonna get used up. if there's one thing I hate it's a sluggish computer, even more so if I ain't benefiting from it.

I suppose it could be used for people who need a computer located in a separate country. This is similar to an rdp however it would not be avaliable 24/7 so won't be as useful as an rdp.

Very high risk... You don't know who is using your computer. High risk to receive a virus, to be hacked, stolen, arrested and many other terrible possibilities! This kind of service just worth if you rent your computer to someone trustworthy that you have sure won't do unlawfully things.

I have never heard of this types of service before and i don't think they even pays enough to cover electricity cost while running our computer full day.

All the bad signs your browser can give you are on that domain.
Rent out your complete pc is such a bad idea. Rent out hash power instead.

Check out their lease packages. This is how it works - you pay (yes. You) Kairosplanet based on the package you are interested in. Then you fulfill the contract obligations by keeping your computer online 10 hours a day, and you will get paid on a daily basis. I read online that the ROI period is 5 to 6 months. Anything longer than that is profit.

You won't be able to sign up unless you are recommended by another user through a affiliated link.

Would you rent your apartment or house? But what if someone bring prostitutes, and make drug house from your apartment?
If someone have more then one house, it's normally that you will live in one and rent all others, depending from contract you create with people who rent it, thats much you will be protected.
It's same with computers, my personal is something I would never rent, but in case I have 10 computers sitting for nothing, I would rent them and collect money each month. I don't care what will someone do with them, there is contract if he destroy something he will pay for that.

if you can do it without moving your PC and they won't take your security stuff, that is great. however if you have to move your PC to them, no because you cannot port your PC easily even if it is portable enough. ???

That is the first time I heard something like to give the computer for rent. I think such service was made exactly for such illegal things as hacking or bitg money surfing. Don't be surprised if after that rent caps will knock your door! ahaha

whoa, deadly service, never knew about this.
ya i wouuldn't touch it, reminds me of the people that phone you to try get you to allow them remote control of your PC, this is just a fancy way to hide it ;p

ooo and it looks like their russia based, home of the pro hackers, NO THANKS haha, i wont be touching this service, ill stick with BOINC ;p

I never heard that site maybe they are want to rent your computer as their vps installing some server debina server or for their hosting..
Many ways to use your computer if they use it for hacking it can affect your ip since you use your local ip..

Its risky if you found those service its risky we can not know what will he doing with your pc maybe for hacking purposes so better to stay away in any services like that better to use it to your own and mine your altcoin..

That will be a bad choice if someone will want to rent his/her computer as nowadays we are seeing a lot of scammers online and they for their security will get your computer on rent and will use it for their crimes or other illegal activities.

I don't think to lend my computer to people I don't know exactly again. I ever lent my computer to friend of my friend, and he made my computer in trouble. I didn't know what he did.

probably if you want to rent your computer, you need to keep on eye on the person, but if you don't want to do that, don't lend it then.

urggghh.... even the thought of some stranger paying me to use my pc makes shivers run down my spine
I don't share three things in my life: my toothbrush,my woman and 12 gig Work folder on my computer
 be ready to get your IP blacklisted after such a "rent"
botnets and illegal activities is all that comes to mind

It wouldn't be worth taking the risk, because we can't make sure that the people who rent my computer will use it for legal or illegal purposes, in the second case it will be really big problem regardless the earning from renting the computer

Oh boy this looks pretty sketchy to me. Anyone can just do anything with you IP address you know. Also for cross country what will you do if it is used for something legal in his country but illegal in you country. i would just say totally avoid any of this because u know even these company guys cant monitor all the traffiic right, if they do they will be invading customer privacy.

Yes, this might happen. But we can track the activities of a user along with time so that we will be able to backtrack to who will be abusing. Similar problems are most common for VPN/VPS providers, still they are managing their business successful. So, with proper regulations renting out computers will also be a profitable way of gaining passive income out of our computer.

I think this Idea only works good if you rent your system for mining purposes.. you run your system for another pool and he pay you some for doing this..

giving someone authority to use your system is not good... I don't think he can do hacking with this as hacking need high speed transfers and this thing make the system very slow..

there is a software name Teamviewer give this feature to connect with someone else's computer and use that system.

Okay, i agree u can track. But this will need proper background work and good knowledge of computers as well because i dont u can blindly rely on companies right. Well if someone can assure me that this is legit then i am in for it.

You do not have to rent out your whole computer, you could simply rent your disk space and then earn some Alt coin and then sell that

for Bitcoin. I have not tested this, but these guys are doing this, http://filecoin.io/ - You install Filebox -- the Filecoin mining client -- and

allocate some disk space to rent. Filebox then stores others' files to mine Filecoin for you. It might be some shitcoin, I have not tried it, so

use with caution.  ::)

The project is probably dead. The last and latest blog entry is dated 2014: http://filecoin.io/blog/

We need to answer couple question here first:

1. Do you honestly think that you will earn more from 'renting' your PC than you will pay for energy to power it?
   I imagine that in the best case scenario you will earn slightly more money than faucet could bring you.

2. What is the level of access we are talking here? Giving someone full control over your machine is undesirable.

3. Can you do something else during time when your computer is rented, or it will be stuck processing some calculations or data?

I just think this are no need the another feedback according the project is already dead. and the chance will always there for the computer are got infiltrate by the malware.

It is totally harmful for your and for your personal data that you will give your computer or laptop on rent to someone as he will install some trojans in your PC and when you will use it he will get all the data of you through his trojan installed.

It all depends on the reputation of the company that's going to lease your cpu power,I once join in this kind of program some years ago and that company has a good reputation and thousands of feedbacks coming from their users,google it first before joining their program .

I don't think it's worth trusting people your computer for just a couple of dollars. They can rent your computer for just five minutes and then copy the cookies of your browser, thus, gaining access to your accounts. There are also private files that you have to keep to yourself. They can also install a key logger in your computer if they weren't able to get anything from your browser's cookies.

Definitely No, i would not rent my personal computer/s ,if that such uknown things they visit or do we have no claim for that even they do illegal transactions we don't know it so the tendency if someone trace its IP and you are the one who will caught by policemen cause  its your computer .its very hard to rent your computer nowadays but maybe you can do some privacy to block those illegal sites or uknown sites to be opened.