On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:48:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Andreas Messer said on Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:38:23 +0200
>
>
> >My feeling is, that you can not simply teach someone how to write safe
> >software.
>
> Why not? You can teach a person to do anything else. But maybe not in
> college, because college is built to make money, not to teach. Consider
> the average textbook and compare to the average "For Dummies" book. The
> former makes the subject matter look incredibly complex, justifying the
> professor. The latter makes it easy to learn.
>
> What is needed is a curated document explaining the five or ten or
> twenty things you need to do to be secure, and then how to achieve them
> in a practical world. Let's start with input field cleansing and
> protection from errant pointers and buffer overflow. There are many
> more:

Knowing you, you probably already have a draft of such a document
lying around.

-- hendrik

> It takes some effort to learn, but I doubt it's rocket science
> and one certainly doesn't need to come from a family who can fund
> college plus living expenses for 4 years, or 7, or whatever.
>
> SteveT
>
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