Re: Automatic Exploitation Paper Peer Review

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Anton Chuvakin wrote:
> > I would love to see a resource for real-world problems that the academic
> > community could consider... or even a resource for other up-and-coming
> > researchers to examine at for ideas.  Such a site might not be relevant
> > enough for PhD thesis work (which thrives on originality as I understand
> > it?)
> >      
> Well, if it is created by the industry, the academics will ignore it.
> And if created by academics, well, see discussion in this thread.
>    
Call me cynical but....

If it has serious commercial potential, academics may be doing the 
research, but saving the results for their side/spinout companies.

The really interesting research (or least the well funded-research) gets 
funded by DoD, with classified results, and never gets published.

And folks who have serious countermeasures to large spambot networks 
might just not want their names visible to the unsavory characters who 
run large spambot networks.

Now a list of relevant problems to research would be interesting, but I 
expect there will be little feedback as to which problems people end up 
taking on.

-- 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In<fnord>  practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra


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