Where Does Secure Coding Belong In the Curriculum?

[goertzel_karen at bah.com (Goertzel, Karen [USA])]

Your example is spurious as a refutation of what I was trying to say (as I suspect you already know). Obviously you're 
not going to try to teach a not-yet-verbal infant a self-preservation concept that requires even the most rudimentary 
reasoning.

That said, I'll be interested to hear from you in, say, a year and a half from now. And I still maintain that the 
intellectual maturity of a two-and-a-half-year-old hardly constitutes "intermediate-to-advanced" EXCEPT possibly when 
compared with that of a one-year-old.

Karen Mercedes Goertzel, CISSP
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703.698.7454
goertzel_karen at bah.com
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Subject: Re: [SC-L] Where Does Secure Coding Belong In the Curriculum?

Goertzel, Karen [USA] wrote:
> We teach toddlers from the time they can walk that they shouldn't
> play in traffic. A year or two later, we teach them to look both ways
> before crossing the street. Even later - usually when they're
> approaching their teens, and can deal with "grim reality", we give
> examples that illustrate exactly WHY they needed to know those
> things.
Actually, I'm not teaching my 1 yo toddler much of anything about
traffic right now. I'm more playing guardian when she runs around the
house and making sure she doesn't get into situations for which she...