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51% of Internet Traffic Is "Non-Human"
hypnosec writes "Cloud-based service Incapsula has revealed research indicating 51 per cent of website traffic is through automated software programs, with many programmed for malicious activity. The breakdown of an average site's traffic is as follows: 5% is due to hacking tools looking for an unpatched or new vulnerability within a site, 5% is scrapers, 2% is from automated comment spammers, 19% is the result of 'spies' collating competitive intelligence, 20% is derived from search engines (non-human traffic but benign), and only 49% is from people browsing the Internet."
That sounds a lot like the singularity in Accelerando. Basically the computer programs end up being so much richer than the humans that the story follows some humans that run away from the solar system because otherwise they can't afford to live.
With IPv6 no more wholesale scanning of the entire global address space in minutes time looking for expliotable hosts. No more 5 minutes to ownage of unpatched PCs and the associated waste of bandwidth.
No more self propogating worms using simple algorithms to divide and conquer the global network.
In the grand scheme of things it won't help much but better than nothing.
Just have to remember that Corporations are psychopathic artificial beings that are created by us, so that's how evil our creations can be.
If you create an AI to trade, merge and "generate wealth", then it would end up being just like a cold blooded Corporation.