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Re: Some quick notes on the CNAS report


From: dan () geer org
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:07:42 -0400


 | 
 | Obviously malware is harder to write than almost all other software for
 | one major reason: Testing. It's a LOT harder to test malware than it is
 | to test almost any other kind of software. Modern malware is a
 | networked, polymorphic beast, that must be 100% reliable in almost any
 | network or host environment, against all past *and* *future* software
 | and network stacks, some of which are explicitly hostile to the
 | malware's presence.
 | 


So, there'd be a serious business opportunity for me were I to
create a botnet that I rented to others as a test platform.

No?

--dan

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