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School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the honorary-mitnick-doctorate dept.

Yardboy writes "A Yahoo! News/Reuters story discusses students in Los Angeles paying $4,000 to attend 'Hacker College' and become 'Certified Ethical Hackers'. Apparently: 'Instructors race through topics like symmetric versus asymmetric key cryptography (symmetric is faster), war dialing (hackers will always call late at night) and well-known TCP ports and services (be wary of any activity on Port 0)', and the president of the college: says 'What we attempt to do in our classes is teach how the hackers think.' Hmmm, perhaps 'Certified Script Kiddie' would be a more accurate designation."

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  1. Not New by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The name of the certificate is new, but the concepts are not novel.
    We went through an entire class about computer ethics. We had to to get a Computer Science degree. And since it was an actual Computer Science degree, we learned all about security and machine language and what have you... basically everyting you would learn in this course.

    This program seams like a stripped down version of computer science for people who are only interested in security related work.

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  2. Re:[cynical] by Sielle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Out of the 5 people I personally know that have taken classes like this, 4 of them have continued on to go after their GIAC/CISSP certifications. If a class like this gets people started, I'm all for it. I just worry about the people that think something like this is all they need.

  3. Computer Ethics? by AviLazar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anyone who is smart enough to hack, is smart enough (save for those with mental problems) to realize the difference between right and wrong.
    Anyone who wants to take an ethics class obviously has some ethics (what you think someone lacking morales will be taking an ethics class to hope improving himself)???
    What they should offer is a class that teaches non-techies what is a hacker - so they learn that not all hackers are evil people bent on ruling the world (not there is anything inherently wrong with this..I mean if I ran the world, it would be a much better place - for you and me....well more me, but it's all good)

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  4. Re:great.. by Anonymous+Cowtard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sorry man, but the word is used to mean malicious computer access as well. Words take on the meaning that the majority use them for.