Re: PhD Topic suggestions

Kurt Huwig <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:52:46 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.virus.openantivirus.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

William Fitzgerald (BH/EEI) wrote:
> Kurt,
> 
> i suppose i shouldn't have said "virology" and should have used the term: "epidemiology" as i was thinking about using worm technolgy to disseminate information too. I wonder do you really need a security hole to use a worm for good purposes! (i am not exploiting anything)
> 
> eg: release a worm on one of your nodes and have it update a security patch then spread and update all other nodes. the idea would be that there is no central point. i could connect to any node and the worm should still spread to all relevant nodes requiring updates.

Sounds like a P2P-network to me. Propagating to other nodes is realeased 
in 'Freenet'.

> i never new about code-red until know. very interesting idea, very interesting indeed :) 

It is called RedCode...code red is something like beating the shit out 
of someone :-)

> do you so happen to have a link to that evolution article? (is it in english?)

The article is here (in German, babelfish is your friend):

http://www.wissenschaft-online.de/abo/spektrum/archiv/6812


Kurt
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