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Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet
From: sgorman1 () gmu edu
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:46:50 -0500
Keep in mind the study was done by physicists, who while brilliant, cannot be bothered with operational realities that prevent their equations from being elegant. Still an interesting hypothesis on how to leverage network structure to fight infections - this assumes you buy into the whole Internet is "scale free" argument to begin with. ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net> Date: Friday, December 9, 2005 10:34 am Subject: Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet
On Friday 09 Dec 2005 14:57, you wrote:a mathematical study is going to come up with a result that is more meaningful.The story is badly headlined. The study is saying how many "canaries" do we need to keep the Internet safe, or how big the immune system needs to be, not about a viral cure as such. It says to keep the infection rate of new malware down to a fraction of a percent we'd need about a million or so machines looking for malware (on some assumptions). Should convince someone that we need to change the assumptions. Hopefully the modelling says something about what factors it is sensitive to. It does however remind me of the comparison of engineering and science, a scientist will earn a living by taking a really difficult problem and spends many years solving it, an engineer earns a living by finding really difficult problems and side stepping them.
Current thread:
- Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet sgorman1 (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Andre Oppermann (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Edward Lewis (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Simon Waters (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet sgorman1 (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Eric Gauthier (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Sean Donelan (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Simon Waters (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Peter Dambier (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 09)
- Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet Jon Lewis (Dec 09)