Paranoia for Fun and Profit!
Of all the toxic legacies that Little Boots will leave in his wake, I believe that in the long run, HS will prove itself the worse. It's a vast con game devoted to separating the piss-their-pants rubes from their tax money. It's a Perpetual Entropy machine, the epitome of a secretive, unresponsive, unaccountable bureaucracy.
With the ability to disappear people. Brought to us, naturally, by "small government" conservatives.
I went online and read more about the school Including a rating by a parent and former student...
"As a previous student 'class of '85' and a parent who currently has children attending this school, I will tell you I am very disappointed in where this school is now. The teachers have limited resources to teach. They have improved the curriculum some but the environment makes it near impossible to benefit from any of it. This school has always had its discipline problems but now it is just depressing. I know I would not want to get up everyday to go there. Guidance only guides certain individuals if any at all. The building is falling apart. This school could use a lot of help.
Submitted by a former student"
I have and Idea!
maybe they should spend money on fixing all their other issues... rather than on this stupid new fascist curriculum.
I'm already pissed off at my county's school board for a majority of them supporting teaching Creationism in schools. They try this shit and I may actually enter politics.
An education in the basics of actual security work might be a good thing.
But I guarantee you that there is absolutely No Fucking Way that this is going to happen the way this curriculum seems to be starting out.
You don't teach security thinking by bringing in a lot of vendors who are selling shit.
You start by learning to assess (1) what is being protected, (2) the risks to it, and (3) the cost of mitigation strategies.
You cannot afford to use mitigation strategies that kill the value of what you're protecting.
If you want complete security from Internet-vectored threats, that's easy - disconnect from the Internet. But wait - if you do that, then how do you send or receive email, conduct e-business, or do anything else that requires an Internet connection?
Back away and try again.
You also cannot afford to use mitigation strategies that do not provide a security ROI. That's hideously hard to try to estimate, but some situations are clout shots.
For instance, which option makes more sense if your resources are constrained -
(1) Put your resources into better securing MSIE.
(2) Using another browser with a better security track record.
Everything you do has costs.
Your enemy is reactive and intelligent, and will respond to what you do.
The better you understand your enemies goals and motivations, the easier it becomes to craft effective strategies.
For instance, just about all internet crime these days is profit-motivated, and the crooks are pros.
That means that the attacks they run will be carefully thought out. It also means that they will be looking at their own ROI just like you do. They aren't going to jump through hoops to compromise systems that aren't "low-hanging fruit" unless they think there's something special there.
The whole field is like that. If the people putting this thing together want these kids to really be employable, they'll teach them how to think.
But that's not going to happen this way. All that's going to happen is more proliferation of the belief in silver bullets and magic. That ISN'T GOING TO HELP.
I just looked at the piece over at Mother Jones. Hoo, boy.
"The school's built around the marketplace that surrounds the defense industry," he explains
ROLFLMAO
That just let the cat out of the bag. He couldn't have done that better if he'd painted his intentions on a billboard in letters three feet high.
This curriculum is going to be about pork and paranoia and pseudoscience. Period. End of sentence.
egg-zactly!
no different the jrotc..no big deal here
except we already HAVE the jrotc, do we need the HS recruiting on our school campuses too...
How absolutely brown-shirty!
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