I think we need to start indoctrinating kids in the womb. Start selling Baby Schneier CDs alongside Baby Mozart. :)
Seriously, though, cyberspace is such an integral part of modern life, parents need to inculcate online security into their toddlers the same way they teach them to look both ways before crossing the street, and not to talk to or get into the car with strangers. In essence, we need to teach kids the virtual equivalents of these safe behaviours when they go online - which some of them are doing as early as age 4! If they can be "brainwashed" that early, they will come to have higher expectations of what SHOULD be present with regard to security properties in software-based systems. Then the notion won't seem alien to them. What will seem alien TO US is that they won't understand the struggles we've had to get people to start adding security. The idea of security having ever NOT been there will be bizarre to them. Karen Mercedes Goertzel, CISSP Associate 703.698.7454 goertzel_ka...@bah.com ________________________________________ From: sc-l-boun...@securecoding.org [sc-l-boun...@securecoding.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lyman [mlyman-ci...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 8:17 AM To: Secure Coding Subject: Re: [SC-L] Where Does Secure Coding Belong In the Curriculum? Neil Matatall wrote: > So where does secure coding belong in the curriculum? > > Higher Ed? High School? > > Undergrad? Grad? Extension? Secure coding needs to be taught anytime programming is taught.... _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________
