Re: hypothetical Warhol worm

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Aug 17 2001 - 01:27:25 MDT


On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Miriam English wrote:

> All in all a bit depressing, but something we all need to know. I hate

We know. As do the archives.

> having to learn about security, but if we are to survive this digital
> age of innocence it seems we need to know enough to avoid falling down
> with everybody else.

Making infoprocessing systems more stable and hardening them against
attack (here we definitely should aim to emulate biology) should be very
high on the agenda of any transhumanistoid person. You just don't build
the foundation of your civilisation on a substrate as crappy as that.



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