Before cancer kills, it cheats
Here are some ideas:Look at the functional call stack. Its a slice of the linear address space that’s actively being used and it is strikingly similar to the promoter regions of the genome. Like some pathogens, hackers randomly try to hit that sweet spot that will jump to the special program.Operating systems are like simple biological organisms that evolve in response to various influences (cybersecurity it seems these days). My favorite is OpenBSD, they invent the cybersecurity. They were one of the first to implement address randomization for kernel and library loading. This is actually strikingly similar to what goes on with the genome with retrotransposons during early embryology stages.People really like to repeatmask (aka SINE/introns) genomes because it makes BLAST go faster. Ironically, arithmetic/statistical compression algorithms work really well with repeats (I don’t think this compressed state can be examined, but compression algorithms are seriously under appreciated).