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  1. Re:American Exceptionalism and Moral Superiority by Salgak1 · · Score: 1 · on NSA Spies On International Payments

    Actually, we started THINKING about it when we started asking the girls what they learned today, and got replies of "Nothing much". Investigating, we found that it pretty much was the case: about half the teachers were just drilling kids on the answers to standardized tests.

    We complained. We got nowhere. About that time, being a "Web Designer" started to go away, and the wife decided to work from home, doing free-lance computer graphics. 3 or so months into that, we talked about maybe home-schooling on tech, as the schools weren't teaching it. (BTW, Hacker High School and Python for Kids FTW. . . . )

    Full-time home-schooling started several months after that. . . .

  2. ethereal is taught! awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future

    http://www.hackerhighschool.org/lessons/HHS_en7_Attack_Analysis.pdf

    It was hard enought to find a course that would teach you the basics ethereal... awesome!

  3. Hacker Highschool Lessons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on A Security Guide For Non-Technical Users?

    You may want to take a look at the Hacker Highschool Lessons at http://www.hackerhighschool.org./ It's an exercise in critical thinking in terms of computer security and does teach all the things you're talking about. It's also been developed through the ISECOM (http://www.isecom.org) guidelines as an openly developed and openly reviewed project so best of all its free!

  4. Take the time to look by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Hacker High School Starts to Spread

    If you actually take the time to look at the lessons they have posted at http://www.hackerhighschool.org/lessons.shtml/ it actually seems like you could teach young people useful things beyond the knee-jerk antivirus and firewall mantra (which don't actually work anyways). What it doesn't seem like is that they are really teaching "hacking" at all. It looks like they're teaching how attacks are being made rather than how to make attacks. I see system scanning, forensics, and web app security but no exploit development. Which I think is good. I'm sure it's just a catchy title and a way to wake up the common person who reads scary hacker stuff in the papers and applauds the next jury who puts a hacker away in jail for 20 years based on anecdotal evidence they don't comprehend anyways. So yes, if it makes the average joe open his eyes and provides young people with a knowledge of how attacks are made so they take the time to be safe then it's what we probably have needed all along.