Fwd: re-writing college books - erm.. ahm...

[ge at linuxbox.org (Gadi Evron)]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Julie J.C.H. Ryan wrote:
> Folks, I've been forwarding select messages from this listserv to my  
> nephews, who are undergrads in CS at some fairly reknown  
> universities, which shall remain nameless cause it would embarrass  
> the heck out of them to have the following sentiment aired......
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > ya, as per one of your previous emails, we are still taught to use
> > only printf and random stuff like that. printf was even incorporated
> > into java 1.5 because "it was so good." But right now I think we are
> > really just learning base algorithms and ideas rather than security
> > practices. Hell, I talked to my student advisor and apparently I can't
> > even take security courses till I'm working on a masters degree.

Well, I never recieved any replies here on what's already being done.. so
now, I am asking for ideas on how we can approach schools. What's needed,
in order for basic CS classes to have a security orientation?

        Gadi.