A network of robots sounds fun until it gets shortened to Botnets, and instead of getting up to fun antics together it just infects your computer and tries to steal your identity. This is the unfortunate side of the internet, that uses unsuspecting computer users to gain information, continue a scam, commit fraud or distribute spam all through remote controlled software.
Although an email virus sounds like obvious that your mum would click on, Schreier discusses the sophistication of programs such as Storm Worm in “On Cyberwarfare”.
In terms of these viruses being fun robots, these capabilities include:
- Self morphing – throwing on a disguise to avoid police
- Self defending – rebuilding itself after you thought you killed it
- Self replicating – making little clones to make army bigger
- Self cloaking – distracting and confusing you so you can’t track it
- Self encrypting – hiding in an out of metal poles so it is not detected
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