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Trying to tie Computer Security into all of this

Using Darwin’s approach

Really slow: it took biology billions of years to get to the efficiency it now is at. How are we supposed to compete with that?
If we follow the same process we are setting up for failure most of the time…species getting extinct because they failed most of the time
Species survival is highly dependent on environment…computer security needs to basically work all the time independent of its environment …how is this going to work?

So for things to work:

there needs be a lot of redundant stuff:
- Genes – redundant ways to get an amino acid
- Genome – copies of the same genes
- Pathways – many regulators
diversity
- Biology is so good because there aren’t two things that are really the same…they have a lot in common…but there is that one small aspect that sets them apart…if they were all the same then one small thing just wipes all of them out
- Can this be done with computers…randomize things by adding introns (junk code)?

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+=Trying to tie Computer Security into all of this=
+Using Darwin’s approach
+*'''Really slow:''' it took biology billions of years to get to the efficiency it now is at. How are we supposed to compete with that?
+*If we follow the same process we are setting up for '''failure most of the time'''…species getting extinct because they failed most of the time
+*Species '''survival is highly dependent on environment'''…computer security needs to basically work all the time independent of its environment …how is this going to work?
+----
+So for things to work:
+*there needs be a lot of '''redundant''' stuff:
+**Genes – redundant ways to get an amino acid
+**Genome – copies of the same genes
+**Pathways – many regulators
+*'''diversity'''
+**Biology is so good because there aren’t two things that are really the same…they have a lot in common…but there is that one small aspect that sets them apart…if they were all the same then one small thing just wipes all of them out
+**Can this be done with computers…randomize things by adding ''introns'' (junk code)?