Jeremiah Heller writes... > do security professionals really want to wipe hacking > activity from the planet? sounds like poor job security to me.
Even though I've been involved in software security for the past dozen years or so, I still think this is a laudable goal, albeit a completely unrealistic one. I for one, would be completely happy to go back to software development / systems programming if all the security issues completely disappeared. But unfortunately, I don't think we ever have to worry about this happening. > the drive for survival seems key. i think that when the > survival of many is perceived as threatened, then 'bad > hacking' will be addressed on a scale which will contain it > to the point that slavery is contained today... after all > don't hackers simply 'enslave' other computers? j/k And of course, that is a good thing. After all, once the first sentient AI takes control of all the world's computers to subjugate all humanity, we have to have a way to fight back. Evil h4><0rs to the rescue! ;-) > until then it seems that educating people on how these things > /work/ is the best strategy. eventually we will reach the > point where firewalls and trojan-hunting are as common as > changing your oil and painting a house. I agree. Even though one risks ending up with smarter criminals, by and large if one addresses the poverty issues most people ultimately seem to make the right decisions in the best interests of society. I think for many, once their curiosity is satisfied and the novelty wears off they put these skills to good use. At least it seems to me a risk worth taking. > first we should probably unravel the electron... and perhaps > the biological effects of all of these radio waves bouncing > around our tiny globe... don't get me wrong, i like my > microwaves, they give me warm fuzzy feelings:)o Jeremiah, you do know that you're not supposed to stick your *head* in the microwave, don't you? No wonder you're getting the warm fuzzies. :) -kevin --- Kevin W. Wall Qwest Information Technology, Inc. kevin.w...@qwest.com Phone: 614.215.4788 "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration" - Edsger Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that matter? http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498.html This communication is the property of Qwest and may contain confidential or privileged information. Unauthorized use of this communication is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the communication and any attachments. _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________