-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 David,
On 4/16/13 2:53 PM, David kerber wrote: > On 4/16/2013 2:26 PM, André Warnier wrote: > > ... > >> The trick is to make the vaccine cheap enough and easy enough to >> administer, so that there will be a significant enough proportion >> of "vaccinated servers" to make the virus statistically >> ineffective. Maybe if we find a simple patch to Tomcat to >> introduce this 404-delay, we could hire a botnet to distribute >> the patch ? >> >> Mmmm, maybe there is another idea there : how about an >> anti-botnet botnet ? > > Microsoft already works with the DOJ and DHS occasionally doing > something like this. It has been a while, but I have seen > articles referring to it. There are lots of ethical concerns with writing a virus or worm that goes around patching systems to make them more secure. I'm fairly sure that idea was invented a few minutes after the first Internet worm was discovered and mostly discarded as being a bit too devious to implement. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRbaulAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYFeEQAKAtih4yjf2Eo9GjjkMv+Ep9 qkCijwXvBD2M1PcIRuJ4+aSyT6Xlslgz0sbHlkV/6XxLtRmVJrWoMh9v9lF9foCm chCHoHcvNJpHfsFOLArhvnFwlZKtAwQYKvpjhZMTZHUog+7Da3f1oFaW/3SNdG/3 0cttkF7F5GsMvko5awxEZZcckcFaDyX3gd/4xXKxNl2Rx4J4YKwrpimTSRAXIiH5 Tc2g9+Q1cVq/XsOkSwoLMZaVrCXq2/TUj8CP2xhn06dooOj3fFItzdcB1CtKH8ZG MIKwsoCgbFvM0vCUWp+NJc+O2RCiiAgI6LMRSm36CQSLGFJthb+0kikgPto+XEJJ CqJbeq6+db7esuHKeJbDD8mF50AHhBiHtS0F6YWz9kekHv1l0xtorQCfM8Nj/OH/ AzseO19TAEUyFPxHKTawpSoCKBw/psou15ii47Saeo5vKFtIrO/Vl4ty7eT2KEOe AvXIU86gYI3F5VaZuOZLmfBNS4rz5Zz+d9z6613HwP6eRCR/q9ynx6tfLEPJqKRr v189T1zdRXany5qW+vRQzfnJ1NWX9luAnyjo4dvMrah1bjRkXc1uiILOrxjqq9jl MuTStz21SCLnO/yNNWOfIKM1xweSrWFKTlUTcaocWNB48635llQdOK5KoT6v1LO1 8nHdAe3ft9Q82EZ/a+Cg =DGXS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
