Get ye to Hacker High School

Posted by in Uncategorized Apr 14th, 2005

Educating hackers in Spain. At the BBC.

The University of La Salle in Barcelona has begun a program to raise awareness of computer hacking and to teach teens how to protect themselves. Sponsored by the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM), the Hacker High School invites students from local high schools to the La Salle campus to expose them to the ins and outs of hacking. Pete Herzog, managing director of ISECOM, said the program shows participants how computer hacking is accomplished so that they can understand the concepts behind what
computers do, how to clean them, how applications can compromise computers, and the implications for personal privacy. According to one official from the program, the goal is to provide experiences for students to learn how hacking
happens so that they will become "ethical hackers, good hackers, knowing what they do and what the limits are." School officials believe having skills as an ethical hacker could be beneficial when students go looking for jobs later.A bit more on the story at Binary Blog.

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