I guess just an idea (that seems useful and maybe I'll think about more later) is why not actively hunt virii. There was this big collective effort with SETI a few years back, why couldn't there be some big servers hunting for the cracks on the backbone. Maybe just a group of people, or a coalition to produce a virus in the wild that goes after viruses. Maybe try to infect servers clandestinely with patches if it becomes known that a user is spouting out bad email. Why niot actively hunt spammers too?
It seem like that was sort of the code of the hackers.. Or at least the myth back in the old days (94-96) when I was keeping track of things more (or at least listening to people rant on usenet about such things as kookery). What are the big time hackers (or is it crckes or some other new term nowadays) doing? Are they being anonymous, or testing the waters before something "big" is put out.
Maybe I'm just blowing steam, but considering the power a virus can harness to replicate itself and search for new ports to infect.. It seems that the government/military or rogue hackers/(paramilitary) could make more of presence on the scene than seems viewable from the public eye. Are virii the only big claim to fame to people who know how to mess with big systems?
Couldn't we have avanging angels against spam/virii instead?
Well just my 4 cents.
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I guess just an idea (that seems useful and maybe I'll think about more later) is why not actively hunt virii. There was this big collective effort with SETI a few years back, why couldn't there be some big servers hunting for the cracks on the backbone. Maybe just a group of people, or a coalition to produce a virus in the wild that goes after viruses. Maybe try to infect servers clandestinely with patches if it becomes known that a user is spouting out bad email. Why niot actively hunt spammers too? It seem like that was sort of the code of the hackers.. Or at least the myth back in the old days (94-96) when I was keeping track of things more (or at least listening to people rant on usenet about such things as kookery). What are the big time hackers (or is it crckes or some other new term nowadays) doing? Are they being anonymous, or testing the waters before something "big" is put out. Maybe I'm just blowing steam, but considering the power a virus can harness to replicate itself and search for new ports to infect.. It seems that the government/military or rogue hackers/(paramilitary) could make more of presence on the scene than seems viewable from the public eye. Are virii the only big claim to fame to people who know how to mess with big systems? Couldn't we have avanging angels against spam/virii instead? Well just my 4 cents.