[yoloClin]

> One of the companies I worked at hired security experts to train us how to write more secure code and you wouldn't believe how bored the room looked.

That's indicative of a bad/dry trainer. A good trainer should easily be able to captivate the room with interesting anecdotes, war stories and general humor while teaching good, factual, actionable information.

Security should be fun, especially when you're coming from a developer perspective and you get to break everything instead of fixing it for once.

It's a real shame you had that experience, because the world really needs more security oriented developers.

[todd3834]

Personally I found it pretty captivating and actually have been friends with the trainer for years now. That part didn’t seem relevant but now it does. I think he was probably the best teacher on the subject I’ve ever met and was very entertaining to me.

I just think the audience wasn’t into learning. That might have been a culture problem at that company. It is hard to imagine something similar happening where I’m at now.

Also not sure why you got downvoted. I think it was a fair response.