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University Of Calgary To Offer Course On Spam
jrcsnet writes "CBC is reporting that the University of Calgary is going to be adding yet another controversial course (The first, on computer viruses, was covered on Slashdot a while back). According to the article, 'Students will be taught how to write programs that create e-mail spam as well as spy software.' While there must be some benefit for everyone else by creating programs to work against these nuisances, is it worth the risk to the rest of us or even to the potential careers of the graduates of the course?"
If you were from Calgary you'd understant.
I would like to put my fingers in my own ass.
Yeah, he speaks the truth. I'm a hippie from BC who kinda lives in Alberta.
What's next ... courses for bomb manufacturing and how to carry out terrorism ...
... anyways, such a course should will likely teach students more about how to con people ...
... two articles in a row from the same source - must be a slow submissions day.
And what academic value is there to learning about how to spam?
While on that thought, discussion of viruses and spam would be better geared as part of social engineering course - reducing the effects of viruses and spam requires viewing it and dealing with them as a social problems as opposed to a technical ones.
On an aside, did Slashdot just become a news cache for cbc.ca news website?
Ron Bennett