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Hacker High School Starts to Spread

Posted by Zonk on from the get-em-young dept.

thelordx writes "Hacker High School, an initiative from the non-profit Institute for Security and Open Methodology, pioneers of the OSSTMM have received some media coverage for their Hacker High School Program. It's a license-free open-source program that provides security and privacy-awareness teaching materials to teachers. Here's the link to the BBC stream and article about the project."

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  1. Re:The (traditional) hackers... by linguae · · Score: 2, Informative

    The words wizard, guru, and samurai already have specialized meanings in the Jargon File; even though their meanings are very close to the meaning of "hacker," they have a more precise definition; according to the Jargon file, "A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it," and a guru "implies not only wizard skill but also a history of being a knowledge resource for others." A samurai is "a hacker who hires out for legal cracking jobs, snooping for factions in corporate political fights, lawyers pursuing privacy-rights and First Amendment cases, and other parties with legitimate reasons to need an electronic locksmith."

    The terms wizard, guru, and samurai already have specialized meanings in the Jargon File. The definitions all relate back to "hacker," but hacker is a bit more general, while these other terms are a bit more precise.

  2. The hackers are coming! The hackers are coming! by xshariq · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hackers: Originally used to describe a computer
    enthusiast who pushed a system to its highest
    performance through clever programming.


    Now I wonder why I hate the media....