Decentralized-virus-scanner

A game of war for decentralized threat detection:

• One side plays the attacker
• The other side plays defence
• The field is a virtual machine
• The ombudsman is software that monitors the VMs health
• The ombudsman is concerned with what has happened to the VM
• Are key system files damaged?
• Have files been locked / crypted by malware?
• Are certain network resources hijacked?
• Attackers submit vectors to disrupt the VM
• Defenders submit vectors to protect the VM
• False positive and negative problem: design the ombudsman to accept random nonce values that impact the tests, i.e. measure performance at date stamp X rather than at a fixed date each time.
• Statistically validity becomes more apparent over time.
• Reward function is yet unknown: but it could be a dividend system based on stopping or evading vectors – I find the potential here fascinating
• I should note because the ombudsman can observe the result, it becomes objective in nature (like a true consensus system), and objective, goal-driven systems make for good cryptocurrencies
• Resulting cryptocurrency becomes an emergent virus scanner
• Security researchers could collaboratively update the ombudsman too based on reputation + stake-holder approval.
• Alternatively, the standard hard fork model would also work