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Good worms back on the agenda
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-27

ARLINGTON, Virginia -- A researcher has reopened the subject of beneficial worms, arguing that the capabilities of self-spreading code could perform better penetration testing inside networks, turning vulnerable systems into distributed scanners.

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Re: Re: Good worms back on the agenda 2006-02-10
Anonymous
This comment sums to nil. "Bad Guys," in case no one's noticed, are already doing "nefarious things." What's more, they're doing it with crap code that breaks things, which is the only way the mainstream media picks up on the fact that something's amiss.

The argument that this is a bad idea bec...

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