Month: September 2022

CENTRAL CORE. “One important difference between these polymorphic viruses, as these adaptive variants are known, is that computer viruses only changes form. "Only the package is changed;" the code is not rewritten.” http://www.pcworld.com/article/252103/computer_viruses_could_cross_frontier_into_biological_realm_researchers_say.html View in LinkedIn

WARNING. “Spawn of the devil, computer viruses may help us realize the full potential of the Net.” http://www.wired.com/1995/02/viruses/ View in LinkedIn

ULTIMATE VULNERABILITY. “Someday the Net will be the summation of the world's total computing resources. All computers will link up into a chaotic digital soup in which everything is connected – indirectly or directly – to everything else. This coming Net of distributed resources will be tremendously powerful, and tremendously hard to harness because of its decentralized nature. It will be an ecology of computing machines, and managing it will require an ecological approach.” http://www.wired.com/1995/02/viruses/ View in LinkedIn

BLADE RUNNER 2049 predicted that a society which kept every record electronically could easily be wiped clean by cosmic accident such as sun flares or by malicious intent; bank records, IDs, property deeds, the lot. View in LinkedIn

POLICING THE WEB. “Many of the most promising visions of how to coordinate the far-flung communication and computing cycles of this emerging platform converge on a controversial solution: the use of self-replicators that roam the Net. Free-ranging, self-replicating programs, autonomous Net agents, digital organisms – whatever they are called, there's an old fashion word for them: computer viruses.” http://www.wired.com/1995/02/viruses/ View in LinkedIn

BUILDING MULTICELLULARITY. “By the year 2040, AI will appear on computer viruses that will communicate with each other using a universal Internet language and will be programmed to fuse together and mutate into Computer Organs that will later be controlled by powerful search engines (Systems) diffused through out the Internet.” http://longbets.org/69/ View in LinkedIn

MORE PROVOCATIVE. “Could Human and Computer Viruses Merge, Leaving Both Realms Vulnerable? Gasson, a cybernetics scientist at the University of Reading, was walking around with an implanted microchip he had intentionally infected with a computer virus. If he got too close to a computer, he could in principle infect that machine.” http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-human-and-computer-viruses-merge-leaving-both-realms-vulnerable/ View in LinkedIn

SLIPPERY SLOPE. “The frontier between the digital and the biological world is already blurring, the researchers said, citing cybernetic prosthesis as a good example. Some people have several electronic devices in their body, such as pacemakers, deep brain stimulators, and cochlear implants.” http://www.pcworld.com/article/252103/computer_viruses_could_cross_frontier_into_biological_realm_researchers_say.html View in LinkedIn

ACHILLES MOMENT. “As soon as those devices communicate with an external machine, which in most cases is necessary at some point, they become theoretically vulnerable to computer viruses.” https://lnkd.in/ddTvp9R View in LinkedIn

“IMPLANTED RFID CHIP can then infect any system reading that chip” https://lnkd.in/eJ2WxX9 View in LinkedIn