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If so, I'd bet it's a damn short list.

OMG, thank you. Though this might cut into my sleep a bit, it's welcome anyway.

OK, now I'm having flashbacks of astronomy Macintosh lab, late at night, too much homework (early 90's).

Fell asleep in front of keyboard, woke up to "Can of Worms" screensaver (never seen it before), had a heck of a start, wondering what the sound was, and what all those things were crawling all over the screen???

It is absolutely! (But nobody better try putting this on my browser.)

Patch all the bugs? Does that mean you can find all the faults in a system? I don't think so. At best, you keep up with known bugs and exploits.

My understanding is that Kurt Gödel told us you can't make any system completely safe from intentional misuse. So, yes we can patch known exploits, but there will always be unknown exploits.

Perhaps AI's can help monitor for new exploits as soon as they are attempted?

Please feel free to explain further, or even tell me I'm all wet. I guess this is one of those times I'd really prefer to be wrong.

Maybe I should have posted the Reddit link, but it's in the kuow.org article, if you're interested.

Quote from the Reddit user: "I paid a drummer to follow the annoying preacher around. Totally worth it."

Thanks! That article is to the point in so many ways, these days.

10% were compromised. The author contacted the Tor Project's network health team, who "made an announcement to the operators, who began shutting their exit nodes down."

Life is just like that - you don't know what the future will bring, the best advice is find something you like, and work hard on it. Often, you will find that the money just doesn't come like you thought it would.

I went back to school for CompSci in the early 90's. Some of the math classes were almost the best part: number theory (loved it, but almost failed, lol); and statistics (terrified of failing and spent so much time studying that I almost failed compiler design). I thought sure I'd have a software career, but I hardly spent more than a few weeks at any job writing software; mostly a few scripts, and some statistical analysis. And that was about all there was over the next 25 years.

How did I survive? There were lots of companies that needed bookkeeping/clerical work, later IT support, then telecom, then quality assurance (never thought I'd work on a factory floor - surprise!). Money was enough, but sometimes just barely. It hasn't exactly left me with a comfortable retirement, but honestly, I wouldn't change hardly a thing.

What is good advice for someone just starting? Don't expect any career to make you really well off. Try to find something you like. It won't be fun all the time, but you will know it's right, when you find it. I've know lots of people who changed what they were doing after school; you might be surprised at what you find you like doing.

Heck yeah! Thanks. It's bad-tasting medicine, but Tantacrul makes me laugh, so I don't mind thinking about what this manipulation can do to me. Hopefully, I'll also pick up some resistance.