it wasn’t intended to do, by giving it instructions its designers never knew it might receive.13¢ The process of developing and using computer bugs, Bratus found, is not unlike the most sophisticated software research. Hacker follow careful patterns. The best of them really conceive of whole systems in t

bugs than we're patching? (Yes and yes.) “Attackers are not like natural catastrophes,” Lindner and Gaycken write. “They can analyze their targets.” Bratus, a math genius who turned to computer science out of curiosity and now teaches at Dartmouth, has spent a fair amount of time trying to understand jus