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If you come to think at it, this "worm" is really a form of life, with a certain degree of intelligence, I might add. Just like a biological virus, it replicat
by zer0gravity 8y ago
If you come to think at it, this "worm" is really a form of life, with a certain degree of intelligence, I might add.
Just like a biological virus, it replicates itself, it hijacks a pretty secure environment, like a cell, and uses it, first to replicate even more, and second, to alter its behaviour in order to accomplish its "goals", meaning deeply hidden instructions that only activate, and this is amazing, only in certain conditions, just how a certain piece of DNA is only activated in certain conditions in the cell.
The intelligent part, in a more humane uderstanding of the term, comes when it is able to act and update in a distributed fashion orchestrated by a central command and control.
This is not just a sophisticated form of software. This is a sophisticated form of life, albeit a distructive one.