Re: BTW has someone looked at how he proposes to fix this?
It seems extremely unlikely that such a system would work outside the realm of science fiction.
That looks like a wildly inappropriate and implausible evaluation to me. There's a ton of research on attack-monitoring software, self-healing software systems, feature injection ... all the stuff Symbiote is supposed to do. Have you read the paper? Or any of the 15 others Cui is primary or secondary author on?
I'll note that nowhere does it mention doing anything magically. (And that would be fantasy, not science fiction, by most folks' definition.)
I will note that the article refers to him as "Dr" and claims he holds a PhD, but UMI doesn't have a dissertation for him, and his academia.edu page still says he's a grad student.
Oh, and a lot of technical people go to the RSA conference.
But, hey, apart from being completely wrong, insulting, and arguably libelous, good post!