Worms kill but Ants save! Researchers at WFU are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature’s hardiest creatures — the ant. Why ant? Per researchers:
Our idea is to deploy 3,000 different types of digital ants, each looking for evidence of a threat. As they move about the network, they leave digital trails modeled after the scent trails ants in nature use to guide other ants. Each time a digital ant identifies some evidence, it is programmed to leave behind a stronger scent. Stronger scent trails attract more ants, producing the swarm that marks a potential computer infection.
Good direction but not sure if 3000 ants will be sufficient to crawl 1 trillion URLs on the web in near future.
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