full-disclosure - Re: Gödel and kernel backdoors

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:00:33 +0100
From: mrx <mrx@...pergander.org.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Gödel and kernel backdoors

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On 18/09/2010 20:51, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> http://plus.maths.org/content/goumldel-and-limits-logic
> Gödel and the limits of logic
> 
> Quote:
> 
> Another result that derives from Gödel's ideas is the demonstration that
> no  program that does not alter a computer's operating system can detect
> all programs that do. In other words, no program can find all the
> viruses on your computer, unless it interferes with *and alters* the operating system.

Can software monitor, identify and log (measure) without interacting with and thus affecting the OS?
Perhaps this is the reason why mankind has not yet found a GUT.
Perhaps a paradox is all we have to work with.

- -- 
Mankind's systems are white sticks tapping walls.
Thanks Roy
http://www.propergander.org.uk
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