Reddit reviews Daemon

Daemon is pretty good.

You should read a book called daemon! by Daniel Suarez

If you're seriously interested in augmented reality and its future implications I recommend reading Daniel Suarez's Daemon and the sequel Freedom.

Do you have any interest in nonfiction? I generally like to go back and forth between the two.

As far as fiction, check out Daemon and Freedom.

It's not really NetSec related per se but Daemon is pretty exciting even if it is a bit far fetched. The author used to be a security consultant so at least it won't insult you with too many inaccuracies.

> but getting it on to the specific machine would be difficult.

Not really. StuxNet showed us all that releasing a rather mundane piece of malware full of NOOPs is rather easy and rather simple to avoid detection for quite a while. That is, it's only full of NOOPs until it hits the one or two computers it was designed to hit.

Think of actual viruses. There are a ton of viruses and bacteria in the wild that are transmitted through hosts, but have no ill effect on those hosts. Humans have thousands of strains of bacteria living inside them that are actually beneficial, but if injected in other mammals many cause great harm to that host. Even AIDS, being such a destructive virus to humans, does absolutely nothing in the apes it previously was hosted in (as far as research tell us it was)

One of the biggest annoyances with traditional malware, like most of the fake AV shit floating around, is that they are fucking annoying and push popups and warnings and all sorts of shit onto the infected user's machine. The best malware in my opinion is completely daemonized, designed to not alert the user that it even exists, quietly destroying something in the background until its job is complete and then cleaning itself up and moving along. Though, I might have enjoyed Daemon and Neuromancer just a little too much.

Edit: I agree with most of the answers in this thread though. A malware along these lines would serve no purpose other than vigilante destruction. Unless it could somehow legally get people in trouble (planting child porn or something), I don't see how this would work to be beneficial long term to the creator, as a widespread infection in a single organization would most easily be flagged suspicious by a reasonably smart investigator or systems admin.

I was thinking up a pretty neat system a while back after reading daemon (fantastic fucking book btw)... basically trying to come up with a trust system among anonymous nodes. Your post here just reminded me of it... It's not an easy problem :p

Daemon by Daniel Suarez Terrifyingly feasible, conceptually cool, and personally I like how it's written.

He unintentionally stole this idea from Daemon by Daniel Suarez -- great internet/augmented-reality/crime/military-industrial-complex thriller.

They basically had headsets that overlayed a HUD on your real vision in the world to let you see "call outs" above people's heads showing their username and level. Throw in a little AI, quests in the real world (like murder), and you have an interesting read.

Daemon, by Daniel Suarez

here you go
http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113

http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113
Sounds a little scary to be honest. Thanks for the suggestion though.