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At some point, computer systems will be more like biologic systems - they will just carry a more or less permanent "flora" of parasites, that will have to be tolerated unless they become explicitly hostile.

Any sufficiently complex system will exhibit this trait sooner or later.

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That's an interesting way of looking at "parasitic" programs. Maybe we could even get those parasites to work for us, like trapping them as the house pen-tester. You could employ the constant barrage of attempted ssh logins as remote connectivity check or something.

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