more on This worries me-- should I be djf Network Inoculation: Antivirus shield would outrace cyber infections

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross () stapleton-gray com>
Date: December 7, 2005 7:03:46 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
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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