Comments on: Qui Custodet Ipsos Custodiet? http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/11/26/qui-custodet-ipsos-custodiet/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Robin Wilton http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/11/26/qui-custodet-ipsos-custodiet/#comment-4436 Robin Wilton Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:31:19 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/11/26/qui-custodet-ipsos-custodiet/#comment-4436 Almost. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. It's not really news, though; even ten years ago, would-be virus preventers were having to resort to 'second-order' techniques to reduce the virus scanning task to manageable proportions. Two I remember were: identifying tell-tale 'tri-graphs' as characteristic virus 'signatures', and applying genetic inheritance modelling techniques from the world of biology to the world of virus "cut & paste" evolution. (The thinking behind that one was based on the observation that lazy or insufficiently technical virus writers would rather cut & paste their own payload into an existing delivery mechanism than go to the trouble of writing another one...) Almost.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.

It’s not really news, though; even ten years ago, would-be virus preventers were having to resort to ’second-order’ techniques to reduce the virus scanning task to manageable proportions. Two I remember were: identifying tell-tale ‘tri-graphs’ as characteristic virus ’signatures’, and applying genetic inheritance modelling techniques from the world of biology to the world of virus “cut & paste” evolution. (The thinking behind that one was based on the observation that lazy or insufficiently technical virus writers would rather cut & paste their own payload into an existing delivery mechanism than go to the trouble of writing another one…)

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