Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader tsu doh nimh writes: Brian Krebs has an interesting piece this week on one reason that so many talented hackers (malicious and benign) seem to come from Russia and the former Soviet States: It's the education, stupid. Krebs's report doesn't look at the socioeconomic reasons, but instead compares how the U.S. and Russia educate students from K-12 in subjects which lend themselves to a mastery in coding and computers -- most notably computer science. The story shows that the Russians have for the past 30 years been teaching kids about computer science and then testing them on it starting in elementary school and through high school. The piece also looks at how kids in the U.S. vs. Russia are tested on what they are supposed to have learned.
Fossbytes also reports that Russia claimed the top spot in this year's Computer Programming Olympics -- their fourth win in six years -- adding that "the top 9 positions out of 14 were occupied by Russian or Chinese schools." The only two U.S. schools in the top 20 were the University of Central Florida (#13) and MIT (#20).

Comments

Re:Their math education was superior for generatio

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool story. The answer is still no, Dave. Stop calling me.

Re:Too many lawyers in the US

[Anonymous Coward]

... secret to being a raging success ...

There are 2 rules to success:

    1. Never tell anybody all the rules.

Re: Consequentialism

[Maritz]

Russian education system - great at making hackers, not so great at making people who resent living in a kleptocratic autocracy.