Slate On Worms That Plug Security Holes

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 27, 2004 @10:44PM from the anti-missile-missile dept.

gwernol writes "Slate has a well-written article on 'white knight" worms like Nachi that attempt to automatically patch security holes; Nachi try to patch the hole that MyDoom exploits. The article calls for Google and others to incent White Hat programmers to create better White Knights. But are 'good viruses' really a good idea? Nachi created almost as much bandwidth congestion as MyDoom. Do we really want programs jumping onto our systems and 'fixing' them without permission? What about a socially engineered worm that claims to be doing good?"

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OT: Bad tagline by jb.hl.com · 2004-07-27 23:43 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Please, change it back to News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters! That really is GODAWFUL!

(oops, there goes my karma!)

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Re:Wrong approach by syrinx · 2004-07-28 02:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What about if you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're", or "lose" and "loose"? Do we get to kick those people off the 'net too?

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