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Re: {Spam?} Re: Automatic Exploitation Paper Peer Review
From: Michael Gilhespy <gilhespy () quicknet nl>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:21:37 +0100
On 12/12/2010 07:38 PM, Konrads Smelkovs wrote:
I'll throw in 2 cents worth. I'm in full time employment and am a part time student, working (painfully slowly) towards a PhD (digital forensics - choice not predicated on by anything but personal desire). I don't see anything wrong at all with the focus on border cases in academia. I work in the availability corner of the infosec CIA triad - in an admittedly highly specialized role - but I think it's worth saying that 100% of my day to day work consists of those "corner cases" or "border cases" or "cascade failures", that Taleb would probably call "black swans" and which I wish someone had foreseen and written a paper on.I am not sure I agree with that. One of the saddest moments in my academic life was realising that the choice of PhD is dictated for the majority of non-brilliant students (of which, sadly, I was part) not by the advancement of science but by the fastest route to achieve a thesis which will pass muster. You therefore look for problems which are obscure, hidden somewhere and with next to no chance of having any importance except to close a border case. The impression I have is: lots of border cases in academia when it comes to security.This sounds very sad. If PhD's in security are valued so low, then imagine the amount of waste put into producing masters' thesises and even bachelors'. If this list thinks it knows enough about real world problems that need researching, then how about producing a list of Dailydave approved research topics in form of thesis titles and maybe few pointers in the right direction?--
Mike G
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