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Parasites do the same thing: hijack a piece of hardware and use it to reproduce. Computer viruses have even formed a kind of symbiotic ecosystem with blackhats:
by scarmig 2y ago
Parasites do the same thing: hijack a piece of hardware and use it to reproduce. Computer viruses have even formed a kind of symbiotic ecosystem with blackhats: the scammer provides resources to help the virus reproduce, and the virus provides access to the scammer in turn.
In a way, all life hijacks hardware (the material world) that it doesn't create to reproduce itself.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoComputer viruses need to get an ability to mutate by themselves, improving the code overtime though.
- ben_w 2y agoSimulated evolution is trivial to implement, but my guess is also a bit pointless from the point of view of most people writing viruses — the viruses might mutate to not give them money.
- scarmig 2y agoThose mutations would probably be favored by evolution, if anything. They would attract less attention and allow more focus on reproduction.
- nyokodo 2y ago> Parasites do the same thing Only analogously. The reality is that what we call computer viruses are merely instructions running on a computer and are not substantially distinct from the computer in the same way that parasites or physical viruses are distinct from biological tissue.