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Canadian University to Begin Training Hackers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the learning-from-the-other-side dept.

torok writes "According to an article at The Edmonton Journal, The University of Calgary is going to start teaching select computer science students to write software viruses in a special new disconnected lab. Will Canada be accused of training the world's next generation of cyber-terrorists... or peacekeepers?"

2 of 350 comments (clear)

  1. Crackers by ramzak2k · · Score: 5, Informative

    Crackers, not hackers.
    I understand this is a losing battle but lets not get it wrong on slashdot.

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    Siggy Say, Siggy Do
  2. Re:Hacking ethics by boredMDer · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you blindly following that link and getting 404's or similar, here's both the corrected version (Berkeley is spelled w/ 3 e's) and in link form -
    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html