Worms that patch with better security have been a thing before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm#Worms_with_good_intent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Worms that patch with better security have been a thing before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm#Worms_with_good_intent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm#Worms_with_good_... They have generally had mixed success, from the ones I've read about. Pretty often there are side effects that aren't good (e.g. bricking some devices, excess traffic due to being too successful, that kind of thing) But yea, in this case I think it's clearly too complex. There are thousands of different things hooked up to the internet, and you can't fix all of them at once.