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Software That Fixes Itself

5 pointsby Sandmanover 15 years ago

2 comments

devicenullover 15 years ago
It makes me wonder if the software can generally "understand" something is wrong, or if it just has a bunch of modules that look for various exploits (say a buffer overflow attack, a XSS attack).<p>If it's the latter, it just seems like a version of lint that runs on the binary and produces patches on the fly. Granted, that's still a big achievement, but it still relies on people for "unknown" attacks.
cmelbyeover 15 years ago
Just don't make it <i>too</i> smart, or it'll eventually learn that it doesn't need to listen to its imperfect human masters...