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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