[en] Zen and the art of automation

I dislike doing a silly job. And I really hate doing it twice.
Whenever I have to do such a f*ing job, I give it to a robot. Robots do not complain, never get tired and are usually better than me for any task that do not require a brain.
Working on robots is more fun than doing silly jobs.
That's why I work on Nessus. Not the only reason, but the main one: looking for security patches on a server is definitely stupid, 150000 lines of C will do it well.
(some stupid tasks need a little subtlety and more than one page of Perl)

Nessus is working, and rather well (much better than its competitors in my humble but biaised opinion) and anybody who'd want to spend a little energy could write patches or test plugins, or concentrate on higher level tasks, like deciding if the whole IT system is vulnerable, to which threat, which sensitive data is exposed, etc.
Nessus scans each machine independantly of the others, and it does not know your network architecture or the sensitivity of your data or servers; in fact, it is not his job, it is ours.

It seems that I overestimate human beings. I know that homo sapiens sapiens is not that sapiens, but I have not lost all hope that people sometimes wants to improve, some way or another.
Many people have improved indeed: they were lusers, they became "security consultants". They run Nessus and sell the raw report.
Added value: none.

After WW3, only robots will survive.
Good.