Christopher Schultz wrote:
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David,
On 4/16/13 2:53 PM, David kerber wrote:
On 4/16/2013 2:26 PM, André Warnier wrote:
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The trick is to make the vaccine cheap enough and easy enough to
administer, so that there will be a significant enough proportion
of "vaccinated servers" to make the virus statistically
ineffective. Maybe if we find a simple patch to Tomcat to
introduce this 404-delay, we could hire a botnet to distribute
the patch ?
Mmmm, maybe there is another idea there : how about an
anti-botnet botnet ?
Microsoft already works with the DOJ and DHS occasionally doing
something like this. It has been a while, but I have seen
articles referring to it.
There are lots of ethical concerns with writing a virus or worm that
goes around patching systems to make them more secure. I'm fairly sure
that idea was invented a few minutes after the first Internet worm was
discovered and mostly discarded as being a bit too devious to implement.
As a matter of fact, the ideas of "worm" and "counter-worm" (and Internet) were invented
years before the Internet itself became a reality.
Check this out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider
This was written in the 70's, and I have always been amazed at that particular author's
prescience. You can read this book now, and it feels a lot less outdated than many more
contemporary pundit blurbs.
This is getting more OT, and diluting the original message. Yes, I know, my own
fault.
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