Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Strider HoneyMonkey Project

What caught my eye was the term, “lead generator” for security and legal enforcement at Microsoft and as I read further, learning about the Strider HoneyMonkey project, I thought why not utilize the spare computational power of hundreds of computers around the world, creating a powerful network of machines working together on the problem instead of the 12 – 25 machines currently being used? If millions of legit surfers authorized Microsoft to search for malicious exploits using spare cycle time or directly while surfing it seems to me that the problem would be eliminated very quickly. What do you think?