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Good Network Worms Made Simple
grabbag writes "Dave Aitel is pitching new technology to create "nematodes," or beneficial network worms for use in large businesses. The idea is to set up a new language and structure to create "strictly controlled" good worms on the fly. A research-type demo was given as the Hack in the Box conference where Aitel talked about a world where "strictly controlled" nematodes are used by ISPs, government organizations and large companies to show significant cost savings."
... will these worms produce Spice?
Can we keep them as pets? Give them an interesting little worm gui to show you have a worm squirming around the different computers on your network. People in the company will just love to talk about how they seen bob pop up on their computer for a few.
It will be easy to distinguish "good" worms from bad ones. Just make sure the TCP "Evil" bit is clear in all traffic generated by good worms.
Easy, according to RFC 3514, the bad worms would set the evil bit in the IP header, and the good worms would not. The admins could probably have just filtered traffic by detecting those evil bits, but I think having a visual display of the good worms vs the bad worms would be more exciting.
Of course, sooner or later, the good worms are going to turn into bad worms themselves and then we'll all be screwed.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
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They're trying to find a secure implementation of Windows.
However, Windows seems to be impervious to this. It just lies there with slime oozing between its legs. (Painst an attractive picture of the kind of fucker who spreads viri, worms and other creepy crawlies.)
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This goes against my attitude that an "opt in" service is better than an "opt out" service.
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