Some other useful links on computer immunity/immune systems ... T http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/research/AIdrift/AIdrift.html http://www.cs.unm.edu/~immsec/ ---------- Tony Link emerson.c.tanat_private wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I've been looking at the CodeGreen thread and it has made me revisit some > old ideas about automatic/autonomous responses to worms and Virii. While > CodeGreen and CleanCR are interesting in and of themselves, the idea of an > anti-worm worm is not new, nor is the idea of a digital immune system > modeled on that of vertebrate animals. > > These immune systems have to cope with all sorts of threats that a > particular individual creature has not faced before, and the way that those > immune systems pass on immunity to cells (or in this case machines or > nodes) has spured some thinking. > > I suggest people interested in these ideas look at: > > http://www.sciam.com/1197issue/1197kephart.html > > and have a look at the article. Something like what they describe would be > a good general case solution for things like Code Red, were it to be > implemented widely and in an open source fashion. Widespread systems such > as the immune system as described would also be able to communicate to each > other, potentially walling off an outbreak before it even hit the wider > internet, thus allowing unpatched machines to go on functioning normally > until their own local immune system patched them in due course. > > Anyways, it's an interesting paper, and the 1995 paper cited is well worth > reading. > > Emerson > *******************Internet Email Confidentiality Footer******************* > > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If > you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for > delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this > message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly > notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your > employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. > Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not > relate to the official business of my firm shall be understood as neither > given nor endorsed by it.
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