Japan wants to write an anti-virus virus ...

[rslade]

Japan's Defense Ministry wants to build (oh, sorry, wants to get other people to build) a virus which can be used for defensive computer security.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of computer history are doomed to buy it again--repackaged. - Slade's Law of Computer History

It's been tried. It's failed.

Den Zuk was created to wipe out BRAIN, and did more damage than BRAIN. That was back in 1987, I think. Many other viruses were written to wipe out other viruses: just about all did more damage than the originals.

[rslade]

> MikeGlassman (Newcomer III) posted a new reply in Industry News on 05-07-2019

>   I think that governments are becoming
> less caring, as long as it does not directly effect them, and this non-caring
> attitude, or the attitude of finding someone lower in line to hit for it, will
> continue.

Good point. We should write a "caring" virus. It wanders around randomly, asking people "don't you think we should ..." and when someone responds "I don't care" it reformats whatever device it's on ...