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If he's the most advanced robot ever, I imagine he'd have a pretty darn good Virus shield program in him XD

I agree Dragonrider1227- a robotic immunity system that is alerted if anything tries to take control of his systems- hugs and thanks

That reminds me of a LOST IN SPACE episode in which the robot grew to be huge & the people went inside of him to cure him of the 'infection.' Anyway, there were lasers mounted on carts that roamed around inside him, like antibodies. It was really goofy, as this show was competing against BATMAN for the dumbest show on prime time.

"Dragonrider1227" wrote:If he's the most advanced robot ever, I imagine he'd have a pretty darn good Virus shield program in him XD

The most advanced systems might be vulnerable to trivial attacks.
As an example, the library Open SSL, which is basically a highly secure system to crypt data, and is instrumental for secure connections, has recently been discovered vulnerable to simple brute-force attack because of an insignificant flaw in an small internal function. This flaw was caused by a single line being commented out for no known reason. To avoid being technical, I will simply say that the number of possible keys that the library could generate was about 65536, while it should have been numbered far beyond the billions. This could allow an attacker to try those 65536 possible keys, which amounts to at worst a few days of computation for a low-level computer. With the correct number of keys, the time needed to guess the correct one would be in the thousands of years. The trick is to know the actual 65536 keys, as they might vary from computers to computers, but this still was a serious flaw.

Thanks Fafner for the information- love to learn things- hope they can correct the flaw- thanks and hugs

The flaw was corrected right away But it has been around for something like 2 years...

Thanks Fafner for the information - hugs with friendship love AND PRAY YOU THE VERY BEST- YOUR FRIEND toni Always

Speaking of viruses... theres also that Episode in the '03 series about the robot cop disguised as a human who has a virus released into his system. His name was Klaus (or Claus?). I think it's called Undercover.

THANKS Innocent_Eyes- hugs with friendship love