When kiddies attack!

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:10 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
>   I was just doing some debugging on some JSONRPC scripts, so in the
> true spirit of printf debugging, I had a terminal window open to tail
> -f /var/log/apache/error.log and out of the blue:
> 
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:28 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/xmlrpc
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:28 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/xmlsrv
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/blog
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/drupal
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/community
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/blogs
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/blogs
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/blog
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/blogtest
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/b2
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/b2evo
> [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not
> exist: /var/www/wordpress
> 
>   Anyone else kinda enjoy seeing someone autokiddiescript attack their servers?
> 
>   Guess it's fun till you notice they get in sometimes.  LOL
> 

It was exactly this type of thing that inspired a friend of mine,
Marcelo Marques of the 4Linux company in Sao Paulo, Brazil to start the
Hackerteen program.  He finds kids (sometimes referred to him by the
Brazilian FBI) who were using their spare time to break into machines
and Marcelo teaches them the ethics and responsibility of being a
computer user and systems administrator.

Additionally, this program teaches the students administration and
security skills and tries to help the more senior Hackerteen students to
get jobs needed to support their families.

Whenever I go to Sao Paulo, I meet with the students, and recently I was
honored to be at the first graduation class (a two-year commitment) of
the first "Black-belt" Hackerteen students.

I know that this site is in Portuguese

http://www.hackerteen.com.br/

but I think that their program is unique in using distance learning
combined with RPG and a "karate-like" system of belts to teach teenagers
how to be better citizens.

I am proud to be involved in my own small way with this program.

maddog