I'm taking this IBM course on security and it's so fucking bad, but I want the badge.
The weekly quiz's first question was about Ronald Reagan, and one of the multiple choice questions mentioned Iran-Contra, but it misspelled "scandal" as "scandle".
I think I'm going to give up on this garbage, because it's wasting my time AND they want 50 dollars for it.
Ugh...but it's a prereq for the courses I actually want...
I'm just going to poke at the videos where they seem interesting, and do the weekly quizzes, because I already know most of this stuff.
Ok, doing that took me 50 minutes, and now I've successfully passed the 4 week course.
The quizzes mostly covered stuff I already knew, and when they didn't, it wasn't enough material to fail me.
This is a very free country that just worships murderous figurehead presidents
@melissasage I mean, of course, but I had to sit through a fucking video about a 70 year old man who probably couldn't even type
@melissasage tho to be fair. I can't type either. And it is literally my job.
This is a course that claimed that Ronnie Reagan watching War Games inspired serious defensive security at the federal level in the United States.
Ol' Ron asked his advisors if the movie was real, if it could really happen.
I can believe that part may have happened, since Ronald Reagan was an enormous dumbass.
What I can't believe is that the same president who used a psychic to make policy decisions had any say in computer security at the national level.