A complete beginner likely understands that the web—something they use every day—is built by programmers. I'm unsure the same is true for, say, the radio in your car, or the traffic lights on your street. I definitely don't consider the programmers involved when I open a fresh can of Tide pods. I wonder just how many things we use on a daily basis were never touched by someone's code.
Someone has to change hard drives all day in data warehouses, someone has to teach toy robots to slap you when they see that you've taken damage in a game of Doom (saw this on Twitch a few days ago), someone needs to remap our bodies' electrical signals to control our bionic parts, etc.
Where are the bootcamps to automate farming and garbage collecting/processing? I think it's something to do with the law of large numbers. Imagine the difference between the number of web applications and the number of auto manufacturing robots that need to be programmed. Bootcamps are a business and exist for profit, so it's hard to imagine starting one up that focuses on such a small piece of the pie.
That's a neat thought exercise, and if anything, it made me think about how we really need more InfoSec bootcamps. I've been curious if cyber theft/espionage has been on the rise while we're all on lockdown, but I haven't had time to go looking for an answer.
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A complete beginner likely understands that the web—something they use every day—is built by programmers. I'm unsure the same is true for, say, the radio in your car, or the traffic lights on your street. I definitely don't consider the programmers involved when I open a fresh can of Tide pods. I wonder just how many things we use on a daily basis were never touched by someone's code.
Someone has to change hard drives all day in data warehouses, someone has to teach toy robots to slap you when they see that you've taken damage in a game of Doom (saw this on Twitch a few days ago), someone needs to remap our bodies' electrical signals to control our bionic parts, etc.
Where are the bootcamps to automate farming and garbage collecting/processing? I think it's something to do with the law of large numbers. Imagine the difference between the number of web applications and the number of auto manufacturing robots that need to be programmed. Bootcamps are a business and exist for profit, so it's hard to imagine starting one up that focuses on such a small piece of the pie.
That's a neat thought exercise, and if anything, it made me think about how we really need more InfoSec bootcamps. I've been curious if cyber theft/espionage has been on the rise while we're all on lockdown, but I haven't had time to go looking for an answer.