The use of smartphones has become an inherent part of daily human life. It allows users to keep personal information, emails, pictures, social media accounts, and financial data in one place. Consequently, smartphones are an attractive target for malware developers to spread malicious content, aiming at extracting information without the user's knowledge. Therefore, understanding malware propagation characteristics could provide a means to evaluate how they behave in order to plan security solutions accordingly. Bluetooth antennas are a channel for spreading malware through smartphones, where the probability of infection, similar to biological viruses, depends mainly on the attacker's physical proximity. This work presents a model based on cellular automata and epidemiological compartmental models for studying the spatial and temporal propagation of Bluetooth worms in smartphones. The proposed model incorporates the individual characteristics of each device, such as security settings, latency time, operating system, different classes of Bluetooth antennas (range and transfer rate), and different user mobility patterns. Several simulation scenarios are analyzed in order to study the spreading dynamics of Bluetooth-based worms, considering the location where the outbreak begins, and the different types of antennas integrated into the smart devices. Simulation results indicated that the proposed model is appropriate for studying how the users' demographics affect the worm's propagation dynamics in time and space. Moreover, the model permits an analysis of the impact of users' awareness about the risks inherent in using smart devices in Bluetooth networks, based on the acceptance of incoming communication and the effects of recovery and immunity to threats. Finally, the proposed model preserves simplicity and computational efficiency, with the possibility of extending beyond Bluetooth in order to include other transmission media.
El presente artículo estudia los textos “The Chinese Written Character as A Medium for Poetry” (1919) de Ezra Pound (1885-1972) y Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908), y “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (1940) de Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). Se establecen lazos entre ambos con base en la afinidad que manifiestan en su interés por la creación de un gran poema a la manera de la épica, por el monólogo dramático y la traducción. Se hace especial énfasis en la forma en la que los dos autores articulan en ambas obras reflexiones sobre la naturaleza del lenguaje poético y vinculan dichas reflexiones con el monólogo y la traducción. El signo lingüístico resulta ser equiparable no solo con uno de los tropos considerados esenciales por la retórica, la metáfora, sino también con la prosopopeya, el tropo rector del monólogo. Por otro lado, en estos textos, la reflexión sobre la naturaleza del signo se revela inseparable de la traducción. Así, prosopopeya y traducción resultan en la obra de estos autores no solo ser esenciales a la creación literaria sino, hasta cierto punto, prácticas análogas.
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