This story has made the rounds some, but I had not commented on the subject. We got a comment that made me come back and add this disclaimer. While Geek News Central tries to always report the latest and greatest from time to time depending on what I am reading up on I may not get to a subject till a little late in the game. I thought the story was still worthy a comment on my personal perspective. Now back to the regular scheduled program.
There may be more than 1 valid reason then I have come up for this course to be offered. The only thing I could come up with is awareness training. All programmers that write software have to be ever conscious that the code they are laying down is to the best of there ability non-exploitable. By presenting this course students can get a opportunity to think out of the box a bit. Done correctly this could give the students with this course under there belts a leg up in selling there skills to a employer.
Good Programmers are a rare breed anyway and those can be taught to look at security from different angles can only be good for all of us. [Vmyths]
Knowing how to wrote viruses isn’t rocket science. Knowing how to construct programs that can resist viruses is harder than rocket science. If a programmer doesn’t even know how viruses are constructed, how can you expect him or her to figure out how to resist viruses?
To see how pathetically easy it is to write viruses, you can get the Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses and Little Black Book of EMail Viruses from .
Fair enough. :)
Oh dear. I thought news meant something that happened recently. This information is at least a month old.
poopoo happens :)