RE: Nematodes: The Making of 'Beneficial' Network Worms

[Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Aditya Deshmukh wrote:

> > > Ja, patching your systems would seem to be a better idea ;)
> >
> > Nematodes and automatic software updates have similar characteristics.
> > Why shouldn't you be able to do on your own network what Microsoft
> > does on a global scale? 8-)
>
> Automatic software updates are good untill they don't break any
> Dependencies....

And automatic worms are going to be any less likely to cause
collateral damage or get out of hand?  Its hard to define a "border",
let alone confine an automated worm to just "your own systems."

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