I notice that you didn't mention any rare disease that none of your friends or relatives have.
Why is it that all of these "altruistic" people seem to never give a crap until it happens to them? Did Michael J Fox give one thin dime to Parkinsons until he had it? How about Christopher Reeves and spinal injury/stem cell? I'd much rather make my money, and donate to non-profit orgs that do things that I am interested in. --Curt On 9/21/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? For instance, my brother (Jon Hermansen) has a very > rare disease called Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis. It is also better > known as LCH. It can be identified as causing such further diseases > as Diabetes Insipidus, which is also uncommon (not sugar diabetes). > Have you heard of these diseases before? Let me educate you… > > General Information: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langerhans_cell_histiocytosis > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_insipidus > > Seven Part Video Series: > http://youtube.com/watch?v=KkBRqZS8nfM > http://youtube.com/watch?v=w1h6ZjxF-To > http://youtube.com/watch?v=0ojbJpERlt8 > http://youtube.com/watch?v=dzUqdYofMCQ > http://youtube.com/watch?v=lNhzwNYhi0M > http://youtube.com/watch?v=nY9DDEhShcE > http://youtube.com/watch?v=5_8SEYyEZGI > > And even worse than this, a friend of mine who is a PhD student in > Math at Berkeley has an even rarer disease known as Gaucher's Disease. > This costs $550,000 / year to treat. That's a hefty bill every year > (you make that much doing security vulns?), and some insurance > companies might refuse to accept you due to "pre-existing" conditions. > So guess what, my friend does not have health insurance and has not > been treated for two years. A genius might die. That's ludicrous. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaucher's_disease > http://youtube.com/watch?v=0nX6QM5iVaU > > If we consider ourselves decent "hackers", why don't we put our > efforts toward helping cure this and other diseases rather than some > very simple programming vulnerability? Is it because then we would > have to reinvent a whole new slew of tools and re-orient/re-educate > ourselves to be successful? Think about it… > -- > Kristian Erik Hermansen > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
