Projects are independent, and each maintains its own servers. The BOINC developers and the University of California have no control over the creation of BOINC-based projects, and in general do not endorse them.

When you participate in a BOINC-based project, you entrust that project with the health of your computer and the privacy of its data. In deciding whether to participate in a BOINC-based project, you should consider the following questions:

Do you trust the project to ensure that their applications are free of bugs that could damage your computer or cause security problems?
Do you trust the project to use proper security practices on their servers?
For what purposes will the project use your computer? Does the project clearly state a limited range of purposes?
Who owns the results of the computation? If the results are valuable, will they be freely available to the public or will they belong to a for-profit business?

Some BOINC projects may make their application's source code available. For such projects, BOINC's anonymous platform mechanism lets you participate without running downloaded executables: you can examine and compile the source code yourself, "; page_tail(); ?>