This article about economics touches an interesting point of view of exactly this situation, prices of services and products can be expressed no only in monetary prices (absolute price) but also in relative price, wich is exactly this case.
The price of fixing a computer and freeing it of spyware can be expressed in chiropractice sessions, turning this into a normal business transaction where both of them benefit.
After all, barter is the oldest way of trading goods.
"...If the new software detects an Apache server running on Linux, it will only look for attacks relevant to that configuration, instead of monitoring the device for an attack that would affect a Cisco router or Windows server..."
This have 2 serious drawbacks:
1. If someone is trying to brute-force attack your servers sending probes for every known exploit (aka. nessus), disabling alarms for software/services you don't run will not show the real size of the attack.
2. In case of an infection similar to code red you won't be able to know wich infected servers are "attacking" you, so there is no way to block them in the router, firewall or reporting the virus-generated traffic to their ISP.
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This "invention" reminds me a lot the soundbug, wich turned windows and flat surfaces into speakers. Info about soundbug at http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/5a15/
that microsoft will have Linux code in it? (like SCO supposedly did to enable Linux compatibility).
Anyways there is no way to know without access to the source code.
Renewable energy is NOT always "clean" energy.
Even if we could make this idea a reality, we will still be contaminating our enviroment.
This article about economics touches an interesting point of view of exactly this situation, prices of services and products can be expressed no only in monetary prices (absolute price) but also in relative price, wich is exactly this case.
The price of fixing a computer and freeing it of spyware can be expressed in chiropractice sessions, turning this into a normal business transaction where both of them benefit.
After all, barter is the oldest way of trading goods.
"...If the new software detects an Apache server running on Linux, it will only look for attacks relevant to that configuration, instead of monitoring the device for an attack that would affect a Cisco router or Windows server..."
This have 2 serious drawbacks:
1. If someone is trying to brute-force attack your servers sending probes for every known exploit (aka. nessus), disabling alarms for software/services you don't run will not show the real size of the attack.
2. In case of an infection similar to code red you won't be able to know wich infected servers are "attacking" you, so there is no way to block them in the router, firewall or reporting the virus-generated traffic to their ISP.