Half convinced universities are paid off by virus developers to teach their students the most shit and insecure practices available.

I'd believe it.

never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

They wouldn't even need to do anything. The material they have is already outdated. Hash that pass with MD5, hell yeah

@magicMirror I see your philosophy and raise you instead "never ascribe to incompetence what can be explained by malice"

@AlgoRythm
Well. Suuuure.

I suggest you get the fuck away from those ppl.

you're half-right.

the half you're wrong about is them being paid by virus devs.
in reality, they're being paid by China.

@magicMirror sounds like an eponymous law to me, which is it?

@calmyourtities hanlon's razor actually. slightly changed ofc.

@magicMirror ah, thought i recognized it from somewhere, thank you

My elementary school still teaches "programming" in Quick Basic. From the same book they used when I was in that grade around 19 years ago. And programming part is to write out the assignment and run it.

"I won't teach about memory safety, as you will never use C anyway."

@magicMirror unless you see a pattern to the malice with the excuse of incompetence as the default explanation.

I think it is possible to maliciously employ idiots.

@magicMirror
The problem with that rule is, that most of the consequences of everyday realworld malice can easily be explained by incompetence.
Especially in politics and espionage, using incompetence framing for plausible deniability of intent has become the norm to avoid prosecution.

That said, there also is a shiton of incompetence out there though...

@Demolishun Never holds up in a real world scenario - evil takes a lot of energy, and people are lazy.
@Oktokolo Totaly agree. Incompentence as an excuse for lazyness and evil? It just works!

Universities intend to teach people core principles (at least where I am located). They explicitely mention, that self-study is required to research current tech stacks, best practices and to gain experience in general. Many students neglect that.

If you then venture off into the wide world, without any industry experience and without projects to show, then you are suddenly confronted with the harsh reality: No one is willing to pay you handsomely if you got zero experience.

Microsoft does donate money to academia...