--Originally published at TC2027 – Miguel 101
So my whole semester has been about computing security.
I’ve been listening weekly and very faithfully Security Now’s podcast, learning about all the new risks on security in our today’s world and my mind has been kinda focused on that since I started listening to that podcast.
And at the middle of this security obsession I stumbled upon a very striking question on the mastery topics of my TC2027 course.
Why should we study computing security?
Heck! Why should we even bother in the first place?!
I know you all got that one friend or family member (if not more than one) that when you bring up a good security advice or tell them about a new breakthrough on security tech (as the good cautious geek you are) they’ll call you a tinfoil hat lunatic.
“I gotta do all that?! What a pain in the butt!”. “Are you seriously telling me I cannot repeat my passwords? How do you expect me to remember all of them if I got 100 different ones?!”. “What’s so urgent about updating the firmware of my smartCameras on my home? If it ain’t broken it, don’t fix it. I won’t waste my time doing so.”
And there you got your why. Those kind of people are the reason Security it’s so important. More importantly, the amount of people who think like that it’s what makes Security such a critical field to be studied.
Because people always put commodity over security we need to study and make our security technology almost perfect. This convenience over security is what made The Reaper IoT feasible on the first place! People don’t want to waste time updating the firmware on their IoT devices, cause that’s extra work for them.
But that’s no the worst
