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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. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sux0r it, beotches!!!!!!!!!

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. turd post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but you still suxx0r.

  4. 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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  5. 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...

  6. My dream! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Last night I dreamt that I was in Russia. For some reason I had been made a high level official and someone was trying to assassinate me. Yet, there were meetings I had to go to, so the Russians arranged spetznaz troops for my protection. Great dream!

    Just thought you'd like me to share it with you...

  7. New AT&T/Comcast strategy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your bandwidth cap is to protect *the children*.

    (I burn about 100 gig/month, BTW :-)