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-To stay within this narrow example - how is one supposed to build a better lock if one doesn’t know how current ones can be defeated? I see this as a brillian
by lb1lf 8y ago
-To stay within this narrow example - how is one supposed to build a better lock if one doesn’t know how current ones can be defeated?
I see this as a brilliant move to foster the kind of curiosity which IMHO is essential to be a good engineer; as an added bonus, it teaches them from an early age that systems can be defeated. That goes a long way towards curing the blind faith in the security of, say, one’s cloud storage...
- defkev 8y agoYou are skipping all the actual useful stuff and teach them right away how to exploit them. A good locksmith certainly is good at lock picking because of the amount of locks he has build/fixed already. Just like a good Sys/DevOp is a good hacker because of the thousands of hours he has put into building, maintaining and hardening his systems. These skills are not _taught_ but _learned_ on the side from experience by actually working in these fields.