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

2007-09-24 Thread S/U/N
Kristian Erik Hermansen a écrit : > > 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-orie

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

2007-09-21 Thread full-disclosure
Dear Kristian Erik Hermansen, It sounds like you are friends with a lot of people that would make good Youtube material[1]. What makes your friends so special? A lot of geniuses are dying in the world. Consider African children[2] that are smart enough to crawl towards food, but fail en route a

[Full-disclosure] Hacking software is lame -- try medical research...

2007-09-21 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
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 valuabl