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Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing
Update: 03/24 18:00 GMT by J : Another report worth reading is Writing Software Right, which requires a free but annoying registration at Technology Review. This regards automated methods of finding software errors (not security specifically). Sun's "Jackpot" is discussed, a lint that also "identifies general instances of good or bad programming."
And Microsoft's efforts in this field are explained as well -- the company "paid more than $60 million in 1999 to acquire Intrinsa, maker of a bug-finding tool called Prefix. The program, which sifts through huge swaths of code searching for patterns that match a defined list of common semantic errors, helped find thousands of mistakes in Windows and other Microsoft products." As a Microsoft QA person says, "Our challenge is to get our software to the point that people expect it to work instead of expecting it to fail."
President George W. Bush will be teaching a course in diplomacy ...
...a course on honesty or fidelity.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Next thing you know Apple will be using Intel.
Alright class, welcome to CS 95, how not to do security. Now open your text books to chapter 1: IIS. For homework, I want you all to draw a diagram of what you think about the security of that product, and please, no more pictures of the goatse man like last year.
Students offer Microsoft 11 week course on writing secure code.
paintball
...and Hollywood is going to start honoring child rapists. Oh.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Suggested course offerings follow:
CSI1001: Introduction to the necessity of 3rd-party security modules in a Microsoft environment
CSI1002: Trusted++ computing--how to manage your defenseless box on a multi-million node internet
CSI2001: Rapid HotFix/Service Pack deployment
CSI2002: (Continuation of 2001) Rapid HotFix/Service pack undeployment
CSI3001: Microsoft and you--Introspectives on long-term site licensing and vendor lock-in
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." -Voltaire
This just proves the old saying:
;-)
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach"
Secure Computing for Dummies... by Dummies.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
George W. Bush to teach a class about articulation and pronunciation of the word "Nuclear."
-- I am. Therefore, I think!
Microsoft's university program is closely linked to its Trustworthy Computing initiative, its companywide focus on securing its products, which was launched early last year.
Hey, check it out. Early last year Microsoft decided it might me worthwhile to secure some of its products.
I hear some time in Summer 2014 Microsoft is going to launch its Memory Leak Awareness Program.
Maybe I'm strange, but I couldn't help but read this article's title as "Using Microsoft To Teach Undergrads About Secure Computing." Is there something wrong with that?
... U.S. President G. W. Bush has announced that he is stepping down from US leadership, and has accepted a position in the United Nations as head of a new organization dedicaced to the development of democracy through diplomacy through the world.
Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
(and for you Woody Allen fans, "Those who can't teach, teach gym")
Isn't letting Microsoft teach secure programming kinda like letting the town drunk host AA meetings at Moe's Tavern???
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
Is it me or is this like going to Stevie Wonder for driving lessons?
"Those who can't do, teach."
Week One: The dangers of open source software
Week Two: More dangers of open source software
Week Three: How frequent licensing payments improve security
Week Four: Shhhh... better security means not discussing exploits and security holes
Week Five: How the media exaggerates security issues
Week Six: Did we mention the dangers of open source? Let's review
Week Seven: How to uninstall Linux
Week Eight: Macintosh--the gay-communist connection
Week Nine: (No classes during this week so students can reinstall Windows or do any necessary security patches.)
Week Ten: Trusted computing, i.e., how hypnosis is your friend
Week Eleven: The dangers of open source software revisitted
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."