linkedin post 2019-05-23 04:47:17

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MALWARE AUTONOMY. "Each new malware instance retains the exact same core functionality as its ancestor and only alters the way it looks. What if, instead, malware were able to change its function or behavior autonomously? What if, in the absence of human intervention, computer viruses resembled biological viruses in their ability to adapt to new defense technologies as soon as they came into effect?" (2011). https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-25 04:13:57

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE this weekend alone deals with the humorous but deadly serious Infinite Monkey Theorem. You know the one: given an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters, and infinite time, could they write (by accident) the works of the Bard? Nice image, with a stochastic heart. Rather like Fred Hoyle’s question of the improbability that whirlwind in a Boeing plane junkyard is able to assemble a new plane. View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-24 03:43:28

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DIGITAL BIOCIDE. "In the event that a behavioral signature is developed for the virus, the entire population, including the cryptic variants, is affected equally. In this case, the functional/behavioral uniformity of the virus population would force all of it to extinction by the countermeasure." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-26 04:42:27

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PRIOR FAILURES. "Earlier experiments have shown how difficult the task is. Wikipedia mentions a 2003 project that used computer programs to simulate a lot of monkeys randomly typing. After the equivalent of billions and billions and billions of monkey years the simulated apes had only produced part of a line from Henry IV, Part 2." https://lnkd.in/dzCpVE8 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2019-05-24 03:41:58

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MALWARE INHERITABLE CHANGES. "While there are examples of functional variation that have occurred by chance (reviewed below in support of our hypothesis) there are no examples of computer malware that exhibits intentional functional change between generations. In the absence of functional variation, differential fitness will never be realized in computer viruses since the reproductive success of offspring remains unchanged." https://lnkd.in/dGC6A7c View in LinkedIn
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