Last meeting's topic of Internet Security was very interesting. It is good to know what the basic techniques are that hackers use to try to infiltrate a website/system. This knowledge will indeed help programmers to develop code that cannot be easily hacked using such methods as SQL injection.
I also found amusing the ignorance of most people about the IT field. This was shown in the Dilbert cartoons. I can understand the first few times that someone asks a Computer Science or IT person to fix their computer, but if it happens frequently then it becomes offensive. This just proves that the IT profession is still very new to people and much of them have no understanding of what IT people do. I am hoping that one day the majority of people will know exactly what IT professionals are trained to do and will recognize it accordingly. It does not follow that if you are in the IT field you are automatically capable of fixing computers. IT people are trained programmers not technicians.
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