To rent your computer?

[bitbunnny]

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?

[Amadues]

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

[altcoinhosting]

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.

[bitbunnny]

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.

[el kaka22]

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.

[mobnepal]

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.

[machinek20]

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

[dreamer81]

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?

[Kevin77]

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?

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?

[Fatanut]

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.

[Herbert2020]

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.

[mishra1994u]

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.

[samcoin]

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.

[isen]

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.

[Robertqueen2]

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.

[mrsalve]

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

[n691309]

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?

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.

[JeffBrad12]

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?

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.

[dc1a0]

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?

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.

[pcoin]

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.