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

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:08:24 +0530
From: "Jimby Sharp" <jimbysharp@...il.com>
To: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@...imi.com>
Cc: 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...

I had a wonderful breakfast, two eggs and sandwitch. :-) I am flying
to New York today. Can anyone tell me any good mall or store where I
can buy a good sleeping bag?

A last question, is the book Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand worth reading?

- Jimby

P.S. Well, everyone is jumping into FD to discuss their favorite
topic, so i thought I might try as well.

On 9/22/07, Dave Korn <dave.korn@...imi.com> wrote:
> 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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