Hey do you have a reference for the signed malware? I'd love to review that...
Bill On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Ray Dillinger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 15:01 -0800, Allen wrote: > >> Frankly, IMHO, we are hitting a peak in world population sometime >> in the not too distant future, much like the cycles of rabbits >> and foxes. Too many rabbits, and the foxes bred until they have >> over thinned the rabbit population and starve, reducing the foxes >> such that the rabbits can over bred, only to have the cycle >> repeat itself. I suspect that a steady state human population is >> considerably less than the current world population. I just >> wonder what the "foxes" will be. > > > Humans don't need outside predators; we prey on each other. > > Seriously, we *are* the foxes. The "rabbits" in this scenario > are the things we prey upon or deplete (species diversity, > meteorological stability, polar ice caps, aquifers, fossil > fuels, etc.), which had for some millennia been in a nearly > steady state before "innovation" started ramping up both > population and the power each individual human has to consume > resources. When they are gone, we will either adapt in some > presently unanticipated way, or go into decline. > > As resources get scarcer, I think we can expect fighting > over them to become a lot more common, hence the "we prey > upon each other" comment. > > ObOntopic: Recent figures from Microsoft indicate that one > out of every ten pieces of signed code registered through > Root CA's is malware. And most of those are "Serious" or > "Critical" security threats, ie, rootkits or similar. > > Bear > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > -- Bill McCormick _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
