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Re: Gödel and kernel backdoors

From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:24:08 +0200
"i doubt this can be remotely implemented in practice because of
dynamic code like |eval| and mobile code."

Because we all shout at and blacklist browsers when a website gets
hacked and starts monitoring users' actions.....

On a more serious note, try a program, like Comodo's Firewall. You can
change the operation mode, from "learn which programs do what", to
"block all programs".

I'm afraid most of this talk is theoretical crap. Then again, during
Godel's age, there weren't computers that could calculate how many
people believe in spaghetti monsters.
In short, there is the social factor, which computers seem to be more
and more dependent on. There are no precise mathematics, in fact, all
notion of
probability is fragmenting so much, that the probability that anything
happens nears to 1.

My two cents,
Chris.




On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:21:35PM +0200, Pavel Kankovsky wrote:

On the other hand, It is possible to "detect all bad programs" if it is
allowed to err on the safe side and mistake some good programs for bad
programs. An extreme example is to call all programs bad unless their
exact code appears on the list of known good programs.




i doubt this can be remotely implemented in practice because of dynamic code like |eval| and mobile code.

can |code| be realistically distinguished from |data| for current OSes
(e.g. is a vim modeline *only a* plain string or a string + program) ?



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