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Re: Viral Cure Could 'Immunise' The Internet
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:07:45 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 sgorman1 () gmu edu wrote:
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.
And you buy the argument that computer viruses are dumb. Malware is not naturally occuring and is not random. Crime on the Internet is becoming more lumpy.
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)