Re:Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best
by ZebraCakes on Thursday March 19, 2015 @01:30PM
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Will Starfighter be focusing mostly on security? That seems to be most of the examples that I find, and it's not a field I'm terribly interested in. I love the idea though, and would like to see it applied to other areas.
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Re:Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best
by tptacek on Thursday March 19, 2015 @01:34PM
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Security is the through-line of the game; it gives us structure, incentives, little dopamine hits, and makes it so that the systems we're building reward exploration. But the game is not about security; it's about programming and interacting with complex systems.
If you're a software developer with no security domain expertise, one benefit of goofing around with Starfighter is that you'll come out knowing a lot more about software security. But it's not a tool for getting people security jobs.
It'll make a little more sense when Erin posts the game details.
Re:Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best
by tomjen3 on Friday March 20, 2015 @02:34AM
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Yes please, post the details.