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Hacker U.

Posted by michael on from the mortarboards-and-motherboards dept.

Karma 50 writes: "What is claimed to be the world's first school for "hackers" has recently opened in Paris. Run by the magazine hackerz voice, for $60 or so you will be taught the fine art of breaking into systems. Google will do some translation of the course details. The local police are said to be "watching the school with interest"."

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  1. There is something like that in russia already... by svara · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here.

  2. Lame by AdamInParadise · · Score: 5, Informative

    I heard about that on national TV. It's just lame.

    HackerZvoice is just a crappy "magazine", 20 pages long. It contains usefull tips like "How to bypass the Windows 98 password in 30 seconds" or "How to mount an publicly shared NFS drive remotely and feel 3l33t".

    It makes me ashamed to live in France. Hopefully we don't have the DMCA over here...

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    1. Re:Lame by elem · · Score: 2, Informative

      The magazine is quite funny... they have a pdf of the second edition on their site. Its full of gems like:

      Spoofing e-mail by telneting to an SMTP server
      Flooding servers by leaving 'ping -t' running

      and the rest of seems to be want ads where they can try and trade their DVD's and warez...

      They so want to be compared to something like 2600

  3. Nooo, please no! by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why the fuck does this appear on /.? EVERYBODY with half a clue in computer stuff laughed at these guys here in France, and cursed the journalists who gave this losers such exposure.

    They are just a bunch of lame'o script kiddies wannabe.

    Just to give you an idea of their stupidity, their publication (Hacker'Z voice) has been repeatedly caught publishing others' articles (see for example this article at linuxfr.org) calling it their own work.

    The most striking example of their kiddie-ness is probably their spelling (both in French and English); I know, I know, flaming someone on spelling isn't exactly glorious, but when the ratio goes above one spelling error per word (and I'm not making this up), you've seriously got to wonder.

    Oh, but wait! They're even more sorry fucks than you'd think. Look at their über-zekure registration form for their university: yoohoo, ACTION="mailto:...". Those guys can't even get fucked to install SSL!

    Couple links for completeness:

    Hacker Z Voice site

    Hacker U site

  4. It ain't the first course by a long way by Zeinfeld · · Score: 3, Informative
    SecureIT (now owned by VeriSign) had a hacker course out four years ago. Only it was a 2 day course and cost about $1500. It was to train sysops in the techniques they would face.

    The french course appears to be aimed at crackers rather than legitimate white hat hackers. I doubt it will last long at that price, the first true crackers who attend the course will rip off the material.

    Before too long the dweebs will come to the same realisation that the l0pht did, that there is much more money to be made on the enterprise side. They will then get VC, set up a carbon copy of @stake and start wearing suits according to Zeinfeld's law: security consultants who are ex-NSA or MI5 wear jeans and a T shirt, security consultants who are ex-hackers wear suits.

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  5. Follow up by Karma+50 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Of course, it isn't really the world's first.
    A quick search after submitting the story turned up these articles

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