Re: {Spam?} Re: Automatic Exploitation Paper Peer Review

[Michael Gilhespy <gilhespy () quicknet nl>]

On 12/12/2010 07:38 PM, Konrads Smelkovs wrote:
>         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?
> --
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.

Mike G

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