Wormy cheese

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunitysec com>]

What is it about curdled milk that is so amazingly complex that no one 
in the New World has figured it out? It's cheaper to buy a 1G USB key 
than it is a pound of decent cheese over here, which is nutty. I can 
understand that there aren't a whole lot of cows in Florida (quadrupeds, 
that is), but it seems like maybe a farmer in the Midwest could use the 
downtime from Katrina's destruction of our Mississippi seaport to figure 
out how to make blue cheese that didn't taste like a weak cheddar, or a 
cheddar that tasted something other than a harder swiss. My local 
supermarket imports a huge quantity of respectable cheese from Ireland. 
Why cheese is something you import from tiny countries far away when you 
have grasslands from sea to shining sea is beyond me though.

Maybe when string theory is done we'll be able to model proteins well 
enough to get a scientifically perfect 10-dimensional cheese making 
process that allows even Americans to make non-crappy Gouda.  Until 
then, the only thing more annoying than trying to buy edible cheese in 
Florida is of course flying anywhere on our "friendly", bankrupt, 
heavily government subsidized airlines. I'm heading to Malaysia tomorrow 
for HITB, and I'll be demoing Nematode 0.1 (motto: "the version that 
pretty much works"). Maybe version 1.0 will model network traffic to fit 
inside statistical profiles, automatically optimize target lists using 
arp caches and sniffer logs, or serve microwaved nachos for snacks.

If anyone at HITB has never seen CANVAS and wants to see a quick demo 
that looks almost exactly like the flash movies on our website, except 
without all the funny jokes, pull me aside and let me know.

-dave