Future crimes and our responsibility – Irwan Syahrir
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Vulnerability in our applications: is there anything more we can do about it? Should security always be an "afterthought"?
This talk is inspired by the book Future Crimes by Marc Goodman which portrays the exponential growth of the current technological development, and projects the future development and then elaborates their possible exploits and consequences.
The ever-growing number of computer screens proliferating in our world, our growing interconnectedness and the ubiquity of inherently vulnerable computing systems (both the “traditional” and the future ones like IoT, AI, etc) imply that this gathering storm of technological insecurity can no longer be ignored.
“As things stand today, the engineers, coders, and companies that create today’s technologies have near-zero personal and professional responsibility for the consequences of their actions.”
Should security be “merely an afterthought” and an external process? Can security aspects be integrated in the craftsmanship/agile paradigms, and then reflected in the methodologies, practices and tools?
Irwan Syahrir
I have been a Java developer for 8 years, involved in various projects with client in the private sectors or the government. I aspire to the values of the software craftsmanship. I recently read the book mentioned in the abstract and got really inspired. I think the issue presented there should not be ignored, it should be integrated in the software craftsmanship paradigm. Honestly, I am not sure I am the right person to present solutions, but I do feel I need to raise awareness of this issue from a developer perspective.
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