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Not always, a well written software contract will generate additional fees/income when analysts or businesses fail to stipulate all requirements.

On the point of >Almost all programming jobs are actually software engineering jobs these days.

Thats a very narrow view of Computer Science, ignoring how software and hardware can be exploited in air gapped scenarios, exploiting what the military have traditionally called Signal Intelligence, not something taught in any university or online as far as I'm aware of.

The undetectable metadata by human senses because of restrictions like our range of audible sounds, ability to detect tiny fluctuations of electromagnetic radiation, lack of knowledge of a devices ability, makes most computer science graduates somewhat blinkered and restricted in perspective and highly exploitable, with hubris being the number one attribute for most.

IMO Computer Science should be viewed more as a natural science, incorporating things like physics, biology, psychology, chemistry along with what's currently taught in a stereotypical CS course. I'm reminded of the fact that my language debugger is an excellent colour blind test operating in plain sight and when you become wise to these additional points of interest, you start to see the chaff from the wheat, whose good, whose not because Only the Paranoid Survive!




It sounds like you’re considering a very narrow view of computer science.

How many people will come into contact with an air gapped system in their entire lives?


Central heating and hotwater systems, some home security lighting systems, some vehicles, many electronic devices with a cpu of sorts inside. I think its really quite common when you think about it.

Are you a bot trying to resource burn me? If a bot, would you even know you are a bot?


A system being air gapped implies a particular security set up that being incidentally not connected to the internet doesn’t.

> Are you a bot trying to resource burn me?

Seek help.


When I was young, most systems were air gapped :D


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