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

["Dave Korn" <dave.korn () artimi com>]

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.
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