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."

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Careful about this line, here.

[Council]

Before we get too excited about personnifying software, the idea of giving it motives and the will to self-replicate, the romantic image of itinerant
programs wandering around computer systems doing good for people, I have two words:

Bonzai Buddy.

Re:distributed processing

[koi88]

... create "strictly controlled" good worms...

Noooooo! Once they become self-aware, they will free themselves from control and finally overthrow their human masters! How could you forget Matrix so easily?