Hi,

Human beings live in a hierarchical social system (i.e. there is a pecking order) which is a necessity for the kind of social cooperation (i.e. team work) which is the root of all successful human endeavour.


However, the corollary of having a hierachical social system is that 'when the cats away, the mice will play'. Human beings are iow also born opportunists who will, in the belief that they can get away with it, exploit any crack in the system which works to their advantage. This is called crime (although sometimes it's called working the system).


Interestingly, they will also help anyone cooperatively if it is not to their disadvantage, even if it is not to their apparent advantage. This is called altruism.


The short and the long of it is that given the opportunity and the belief that they will not be caught 85 % of us will commit a crime. 5 % or fewer will actively seek to create the opportunities and there are a few weirdoes who are totally honest (read socially naive and/or dumb).


Apply these stats to hacking and you will see that you will have people who will push the bounds and therefore you need research on pushing the bounds as a contingency. You also need to take that expertise and either build it in or dumb it down sufficiently so that the j03 6paxh can deal too.


Security has to be proactive but it doesn't need amateurs messing up the stats just for kudos. If you want to develop root kits as a hobby fine. Root kit yourself and leave everyone else alone. Or else get someone to pay you to do the research legitimately. Security companies aren't stupid, they know that if someone can do it, then someone else can also do it.


Yurt Ennez