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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. no teaching the right things by MC68000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the goal is to increase the kids awareness of security and prevention of things like identity theft, they should just be taught good internet safety practices and the use of a firewall and anti-virus software.

    Why should we teach them how to hack?

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