When kiddies attack!

[Thomas Charron]

On 2/8/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> 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
> >   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.

  Will they track down the troublemakers by IP, and go knocking on
doors?  Man that'd be nice.  :-D

> 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.

  That's actually a pretty cool program they have going there.
Definitely gives them a more creative outlet to use their potential
skill.

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-- Thomas