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Worries over "good worms" rise again
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-02-18

A scientific paper discussing theories of information propagation reopened the debate on beneficial worms last week, after one of the authors -- a researcher at Microsoft -- told reporters that the company could benefit from making software updates spread more like computer worms.

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Worries over "good worms" rise again 2008-03-07
Anonymous
I attempted to get this message to the 4 researchers...hopefully it finds them well. Otherwise here's food for thought for the critics: I was just thinking about this more and maybe if they described it differently it wouldn?t be so bad. It would need really good and TRUSTWORTHY / secure / reliabl...

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