Autonomous smartphone apps: self-compilation, mutation, and viral spreading
This addresses the critical issue of maintaining digital communication for users in regions affected by natural disasters or human-made censorship, representing a novel paradigm rather than an incremental improvement.
The authors tackled the problem of disrupted Internet access during disasters or censorship by creating the first autonomous smartphone app that can self-compile, mutate, and spread virally without a central app store or host computer, enabling survival in scenarios like Internet kill switches.
We present the first smart phone tool that is capable of self-compilation, mutation and viral spreading. Our autonomous app does not require a host computer to alter its functionality, change its appearance and lacks the normal necessity of a central app store to spread among hosts. We pioneered survival skills for mobile software in order to overcome disrupted Internet access due to natural disasters and human made interference, like Internet kill switches or censored networks. Internet kill switches have proven to be an effective tool to eradicate open Internet access and all forms of digital communication within an hour on a country-wide basis. We present the first operational tool that is capable of surviving such digital eradication.