full-disclosure - Re: [Dailydave] Hacking software is lame -- try medical research...

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Message-ID: <02af01c7fd2c$20348650$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:20:36 +0100
From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@...imi.com>
To: "'Kristian Erik Hermansen'" <kristian.hermansen@...il.com>,
	<full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>, <dailydave@...ts.immunitysec.com>
Subject: Re: [Dailydave] Hacking software is lame -- try
	medical research...

On 21 September 2007 18:37, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:

> Some interesting discussion came up on some security lists this week
> and it got me to thinking.  Yes, hacking software is lame.  Cool, so
> you found some vulnerabilities in some widely distributed application,
> service, or OS and it is patched just as quickly.  Why don't we spend
> our time and valuable energy researching cures for rare or popular
> diseases instead?  

  I already have a computer, and the skills needed to use it.  I don't have a
lab full of testtubes nor the skills needed to use them nor the years of
training required before I would consider myself competent to perform
experiments on human beings.  I haven't met your brother or friend, so their
tragedy doesn't motivate me to make the enormous effort to suddenly change my
life around in a completely different direction.

  I don't want to sound callous and inhumane.  But I am, so that's how it
comes across.[*]

    cheers,
      DaveK
[*] - deliberate misquote, fact-checkers.
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

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