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Why everyone should be an AppSec specialist

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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The Importance of Technology in the Age of Piracy

My first computer system at home was an Amiga 500 games console. We weren't cool enough to have Nintendo's or ZX bedrooms. And my first game that I really remember playing was the original Street Fighter II. It came on 10 floppy disks and you had to switch the disks between characters. But what was also happening at the side was a massive piracy industry because games were expensive. You would go with your pack of ten floppy disks and they would copy you again. There were also cheat codes built into them. They were looking at how they worked and doing different things. And this was just gaming. So security doesn't exist because of the technology we're building. It exists because of

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