From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 08:24:14 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1344000/1344344.stm
>
> By BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward
> A helpful virus is making its way around the web, checking computers for
> vulnerabilities and closing them.
HA! I wondered when this was going to start happening. The virus itself
may sound benevolent, and it probably is, but the whole thing betrays a
new kind of ecology where users' computers are just pushed around by
whatever force takes control of their system. Now it's not a question of
good users and bad hax0rs fighting it out, but good viruses and bad
viruses fighting it out.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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