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Postby Dragonrider1227 » 17 years ago

If he's the most advanced robot ever, I imagine he'd have a pretty darn good Virus shield program in him XD

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Postby tonigirl1000 » 17 years ago

I agree Dragonrider1227- a robotic immunity system that is alerted if anything tries to take control of his systems- hugs and thanks

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Postby jeffbert » 17 years ago

That reminds me of a LOST IN SPACE episode in which the robot grew to be huge & the people went inside of him to cure him of the 'infection.' Anyway, there were lasers mounted on carts that roamed around inside him, like antibodies. It was really goofy, as this show was competing against BATMAN for the dumbest show on prime time. :lol:
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Postby fafner » 17 years ago

"Dragonrider1227" wrote:If he's the most advanced robot ever, I imagine he'd have a pretty darn good Virus shield program in him XD

The most advanced systems might be vulnerable to trivial attacks.
As an example, the library Open SSL, which is basically a highly secure system to crypt data, and is instrumental for secure connections, has recently been discovered vulnerable to simple brute-force attack because of an insignificant flaw in an small internal function. This flaw was caused by a single line being commented out for no known reason. To avoid being technical, I will simply say that the number of possible keys that the library could generate was about 65536, while it should have been numbered far beyond the billions. This could allow an attacker to try those 65536 possible keys, which amounts to at worst a few days of computation for a low-level computer. With the correct number of keys, the time needed to guess the correct one would be in the thousands of years. The trick is to know the actual 65536 keys, as they might vary from computers to computers, but this still was a serious flaw.
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Postby tonigirl1000 » 17 years ago

Thanks Fafner for the information- love to learn things- hope they can correct the flaw- thanks and hugs

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Postby fafner » 17 years ago

The flaw was corrected right away :D But it has been around for something like 2 years...
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Postby tonigirl1000 » 17 years ago

Thanks Fafner for the information - hugs with friendship love AND PRAY YOU THE VERY BEST- YOUR FRIEND toni Always

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Postby Innocent_Eyes » 17 years ago

Speaking of viruses... theres also that Episode in the '03 series about the robot cop disguised as a human who has a virus released into his system. His name was Klaus (or Claus?). I think it's called Undercover.

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Postby tonigirl1000 » 17 years ago

THANKS Innocent_Eyes- hugs with friendship love


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