Rick Jelliffe has a post over on O’Reilly about the idea that our brains are wired to be both predator and prey – and that there is an oscillation between the two. His extension is to ponder the applicability of that as a design pattern, which seems like a good idea.
It would make a good IDS/virus/spam detector – one that could react to environmental triggers (more traffic that wasn’t there before, perhaps) and ramp up the activity and severity of the requisite scans.
Interesting idea.