[rapjr9]

I get that young male PhD students find spying on people fascinating. I used to be fascinated by it also, until I became a sys admin and learned that people are immeasurably boring. But why is this research being encouraged? Do we really need more ways to attack computers and data? It's already obvious they will never be secure.

[dharmatva]

Things end up being useful in unexpected ways in the future.

[Thorrez]

This isn't relevant to spying on regular people. Regular people don't have air-gapped computers.

[fortran77]

I'm not sure this guy's sex and age are relevant.