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Throttling Computer Viruses

Posted by michael on from the slow-down-cowboy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An article in the Economist that looks at a new way to thwart computer viral epidemics, by focusing on making computers more resilient rather than resistant. The idea is to slow the spread of viral epidemics allowing effective human intervention rather than attempting to make a computer completely resistant to attack."

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  1. Tries... by Ripplet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tries desparately to think of something interesting to say about this post, other than, "cool", "why didn't I think of that" etc. Fails.

    Tries desparately to resist temptation to mention FirstPost. Fails.

    Tries to think of something else to discourage moderators from hitting the thumbs down button. ??

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    1. Re:Tries... by jez9999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Looks like you failed.

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  2. guffaw by fiftyLou · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    In the time that it takes a technician to swig a mouthful of cold coffee and clear the boxes of congealed pizza from his desk,

    Ha Ha Ha!

    Fscking hell, I just spit Mountain Dew all over the chinese food delivery guy...