- Instead of routinely hunting and killing bugs, new research is proposing the addition of a “chaff bug” in programs to make them safer. By making software “buggier,” hackers could be baited and therefore overwhelmed by the number of bugs in a system and eventually give up their search,
according to a study by researchers Zhenghao Hu, Yu Hu and Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
- of New York University.