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Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research...
From: "J.M. Seitz" <lists () bughunter ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:14:52 -0700
Kristian,
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?
This is something I have pondered often, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers last year at the age of 54, which is extremely young to have the onset of dementia, she faces 20+ years of slowly losing portions of her brain while maintaining a perfectly healthy body. As I worked my way through vuln-dev, fuzzing, RE'ing, etc. and I read some of the brilliant papers from infosec thought leaders, it occurred to me that it would be interesting to gather a group of them together and hack Alzheimers. There are lots of correlating things we could all do much the same way: learn some physiology (OS internals, x86 assembly), determine how high-level systems interact with the low level systems (data flow analysis, run tracing, debugging),find the genetic or physiological weakspots (exploit development) and determine a means of detection, prevention (developer education, NX bit,binary patching). The unfortunate thing about Alzheimer's is that there is no way to even properly diagnose it until post-mortem (crash dump?) and no drugs are covered by any health plans, as they don't even know if the drugs have any effect on it. But, we do what we can and what we enjoy, it's what helps us all to sometimes escape the harsh reality of the unchangeable things in the real world. Maybe Damian could port ImmunityDebugger to work with a GE MRI machine? I will ask him..... JS jms () bughunter ca _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
Current thread:
- Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... Kristian Erik Hermansen (Sep 21)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... M. Shirk (Sep 21)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... J.M. Seitz (Sep 21)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... Rich Mogull (Sep 21)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... Philippe Langlois (Sep 21)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... dan (Sep 22)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... Dave Aitel (Sep 21)
- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... Rich Mogull (Sep 21)
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- Re: Hacking software is lame -- try medical research... Kristian Erik Hermansen (Sep 21)