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Why Virus Writers are Useful
man_of_mr_e writes "Security site Zone-h.org has an interview with Professor Samuel D. Forrester, one of the worlds leading immunologists. In this interview he asserts that immunity is built by infection, and without it you would have a much weaker ecosystem. "
Between natural viruses and bacterias and man-created constructs.
If I create a superbug in a lab which is incurable, has a 99.99999% fatality rate, and spreads through the air, does that count as part of the "healthy ecosystem?"
Anyone can see the difference between the common cold and weaponized antrax.
Virus and worm writers can kiss my ass, with all the rest of the script kiddies and h4x0rs.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Just because this holds for humans doens't mean it will work with computers. All that it suggests is that having Viruses forces companies to produce patches.
I guess in the long run programmers will learn from virus outbreaks, how to prevent attacks and reduce secuirty risks. But mostly viruses exploit holes in code or mistakes that should have been sorted in the first place (the programmers know that a buffer underrun is bad, just having a virus expoit it doesn't mean they suddenly relalise how bad it is, they most likely missed it rather than didn't know how to prevent such a disaster in the first place).
This seems like a flimsey statement I'm not sure I agree with it.
I spent ages trying to think of sig, but never did
...so I'm just going by the submitter's description but the next time a genetics story is posted here and I flame people for all the "I don't know how DNA works but I assume it's exactly like C code." comments, feel free to remind me of this guy extrapolating from immunology to computer viruses.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Spammers.
Let the haxxors go after the ba****ds who keep sending us "O_n_l_i_n_e_D_e_g_r_e_e", "Lonely?", "Arnold", "Urgent Business Proposal" and all that other BS.
Bring THIER servers down, and they will earn instant respect... at least from this computer geek.
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