Self-propagating instances in the clouds, as a replacement for "viruses in executable files"
I am telling a funny idea that was formulated at work today.
Imagine a bot who mines bitcoins, provides some simple services through the WWW (for example, generates a pseudo-meaningful text for very little money on the copywriters' exchange).
And let this bot have a simple program:
1) Transfer part of the proceeds to your personal account (the account from which this bot was launched in the cloud)
2) As soon as enough money is accumulated, by means of anti-gig and a list of well-known cloud providers register a new account and launch your copy there.
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Most of the "copies" should fall on the same service where the bot is running, the smaller - on arbitrary others.
Such a strategy will allow those bots to survive, who by their work are able to recoup themselves and at the same time multiply in the environment (provider) whose conditions are most beneficial for survival (environments in which such bots are not beneficial will not allow them to die down or even exist, because bots will be turned off for non-payment).
As part of the on-demand self-service concept, which is more or less common for clouds, this is all that is needed for a self-replicating structure.
What is interesting about this strategy? Given that registration by a bot is most often a violation of the terms of use, otherwise this instance does not violate the rules in any way. Peacefully works and pays for resources. Periodically ordering yourself more and more. Thus, unlike computer viruses, which were named so by analogy with viruses that infect cells and parasitize them (we are talking about old viruses, which added themselves to the executable file), such a design should be called as “phytoplankton”, or just "plankton".
Peacefully drifting in the clouds, multiplying when possible, or just barely earning his bread.
I have little faith in alternative methods of “making money for bots” (especially one that could scale when launching new copies), but the bitcoin mining option looks quite rational (although you need to calculate the cost of placement with the amount of digging).
Imagine a bot who mines bitcoins, provides some simple services through the WWW (for example, generates a pseudo-meaningful text for very little money on the copywriters' exchange).
And let this bot have a simple program:
1) Transfer part of the proceeds to your personal account (the account from which this bot was launched in the cloud)
2) As soon as enough money is accumulated, by means of anti-gig and a list of well-known cloud providers register a new account and launch your copy there.
')
Most of the "copies" should fall on the same service where the bot is running, the smaller - on arbitrary others.
Such a strategy will allow those bots to survive, who by their work are able to recoup themselves and at the same time multiply in the environment (provider) whose conditions are most beneficial for survival (environments in which such bots are not beneficial will not allow them to die down or even exist, because bots will be turned off for non-payment).
As part of the on-demand self-service concept, which is more or less common for clouds, this is all that is needed for a self-replicating structure.
What is interesting about this strategy? Given that registration by a bot is most often a violation of the terms of use, otherwise this instance does not violate the rules in any way. Peacefully works and pays for resources. Periodically ordering yourself more and more. Thus, unlike computer viruses, which were named so by analogy with viruses that infect cells and parasitize them (we are talking about old viruses, which added themselves to the executable file), such a design should be called as “phytoplankton”, or just "plankton".
Peacefully drifting in the clouds, multiplying when possible, or just barely earning his bread.
I have little faith in alternative methods of “making money for bots” (especially one that could scale when launching new copies), but the bitcoin mining option looks quite rational (although you need to calculate the cost of placement with the amount of digging).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/183934/
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