Comments on: Borg-like cybots may patrol government networks

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory creates mobile, autonomous cyberrobot software called Untame to protect the United States' computer network infrastructure.

[yanchineseguy]

Let the assimilation and resistance jokes begin.

[SenorFrog]

So are we to assume that by using a acronym like UNTAMED and comparing them to the Borg, that even the PR folks at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are divorced from reality and don't understand the limited IT understanding of Congress, the 'it tubes' guys?

It sounds like great tech and a positive way to use what is normally a method used by malware but come on, get off on the right foot please. You're not responding to brain surgeons.

[Chaos0922]

Isn't this how SkyNet begins?

[Art Dir]

Does this mean I'll get my own personal Summer Glau-bot arriving from the future soon?

[JohnPhoenix]

Yeah, this SkyNet, not the borg.

[tm_anon]

which time?

[tm_anon]

Who has the ability to turn off the security measure when there's a glitch in the system and it turns out that nobody can access the network because it's seen as a security threat?

[gggg sssss]

wasnt there a movie about that. Or maybe they might remeber HAL2000 and Dave

[kudzul33t]

This could be awesome technology but I keep thinking about I-Robot.

~ I was here ~

[Michichael]

*grin* Oooh, I look forward to playing with this stuff. Watch it find it's way into our nuclear facilities, somebody changes the passwords and holds the country hostage because nobody else can hack it. There's always a way through though - given enough time, anything can be hacked.

[SteamChip]

Yes, an unattended castle guarded only by dogs could eventually be breeched and overrun, but add a few human guards awakened by the barking, then pouring hot oil all over the hacker?s battering ram, then it will take a LOT more time to occur. Add a few sorties by the knights that finally awoke and throw in the relief army and the hackers may have to even call it a day and go home.

Eventually it becomes a matter of how clever the attackers and defenders are, and how many resources they have to field against each other.