http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1454331
The idea, then, is to limit the rate at which a computer can connect to new computers, where “new” means those that are not on a recent history list. Dr Williamson's “throttle” (so called because it is both a kind of valve and a way of strangling viruses at birth) restricts such connections to one a second. This might not sound like much to a human, but to a computer virus it is an age.
The idea, then, is to limit the rate at which a computer can connect to new computers, where “new” means those that are not on a recent history list. Dr Williamson's “throttle” (so called because it is both a kind of valve and a way of strangling viruses at birth) restricts such connections to one a second. This might not sound like much to a human, but to a computer virus it is an age.