Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code

shreshtha contributes this snippet from MIT's Technology Review: "Martin Rinard, a professor of computer science at MIT, is unabashed about the ultimate goal of his group's research: 'delivering an immortal, invulnerable program.' In work presented this month at the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in Big Sky, MT, his group has developed software that can find and fix certain types of software bugs within a matter of minutes." Interestingly, this software doesn't need access to the source code of the target program.

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DMCA?

[happyslayer]

So how long before someone uses this to "patch" DRM and/or Windows Genuine Advantage? They interfere with my computer's functions, cause software/systems to fail out of nowhere, and are an unwanted inclusion in many programs. Yep--sounds like bugs to me!

Which means it won't be long before patches are available. Cue the angry horde of DMCA attorneys....