The Internet needs an antibotty immune system, stat
Summary
Anil Madhavapeddy argues that autonomous AI attackers could chain vulnerabilities across devices, especially legacy IoT that cannot be easily upgraded, making a digital 'antibotty' inoculation network essential. The piece critiques centralized defense models and explores local, AI-driven defenses to inoculate nearby hosts rapidly, while outlining long-term ideas like formal specification, mutation-diverse software stacks, and self-healing systems. It also ties these concepts to broader Internet ecology work and biodiversity-inspired defense strategies.