To rent your computer?

[StarofBTC]

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.

[BitcoinSupremo]

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.

[neochiny]

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.

[BingoDog]

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.

[European Central Bank]

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.

[SAMKUSH]

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.

[mrcash02]

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.

[piloder]

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.

[klaaas]

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.

[sbtctalk]

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.

[iv4n]

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.

[lottery248]

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.

[Tanic]

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

[CjMapope]

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

[crairezx20]

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..

[socks435]

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..

[FLoving]

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.

[Hirose UK]

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 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.

[veleten]

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

[Hellacopter]

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