[IP] more on This worries me-- should I be djf Network Inoculation: Antivirus shield would outrace cyber infections
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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 7, 2005 7:03:46 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on This worries me-- should I be djf Network
Inoculation: Antivirus shield would outrace cyber infections
At 03:43 PM 12/7/2005, Brad Templeton wrote:
b) As you worry, it's entirely possible the network that spreads the
countermeasures could be suborned to carry a nastier infection. A
retrovirus of sorts, like HIV going after the immune system.
There's a current DOD SBIR topic open now, soliciting proposals for a
so-called "cyber-craft" to course about in networks, collaborating
with similar 'bots, and fighting attacks... there's a comparable risk
that the subborned cure would be worse than any disease, though.
That solicitation is here: http://dodsbir.net/Sitis/
display_topic.asp?Bookmark=28655
Ross
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Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
http://www.stapleton-gray.com
http://www.sortingdoor.com
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