Phone Policy

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Originally Posted by bkahl

Ive changed my mind.

We should all ask our students to sacrifice their phones in memory of these beautiful souls.

Sure and the world will get less connected tomorrow.
Just like that...
Except it won't.
It's Pandora's Box and once it is open it can't be shut.

I will say that everyone should watch and teach their kids how to use this technology properly. So that means find a path you like, but don't be surprised if blocking your students from the technology leaves them unprepared when they encounter it and they will.

I will also say it would be foolish not to point out that there are enormous opportunities for students to have a career in information security. Not all these jobs need to be like mine. The ultimate goal should be to better engineer the entire process such that there's enough people to pull shifts and to harden everything better (there's a vast amount of things my systems depend on that I don't control and form risks I must manage). I grew up building weapons to fight wars. So for me to fight an information war is right in line with where I started.

Also I seriously doubt those people would appreciate watching their sacrifice be used as you are suggesting.
We all manage risk, even those without phones operating machine tools.
You can't avoid all risk or you loose opportunities to benefit.
So unless you're prepared to ban power tools because people have died operating them...