School Teaches 'Ethical Hacking'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday June 28, 2004 @06:30AM 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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Mmm... Maturity by superpulpsicle · 2004-06-28 06:56 · Score: 0, Troll

You can teach kids how to use a gun, but you cannot make them mature over night. That's why it's better off NOT teaching kids how to use a gun. I don't care if they are A students, kids are kids, they do stupid things. Even if they have an IQ of 1000, it's no different.