In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future 85
caseyb89 writes "Hacker Highschool is an after school program that teaches students the best practices of responsible hacking. The program is open source, and high schools across the country have begun offering the free program to students. Hacker Highschool recognized that teens are constantly taught that hacking is bad, and they realized that teens' amateur understanding of hacking was the cause of the biggest issues. The program aims to reverse this negative stereotype of hacking by encouraging teens to embrace ethical, responsible hacking."
Loaded term. (Score:5, Insightful)
"Hacker" is a loaded term. It might not be fair, but that is the fact of the matter. As such "Hacker Highschool" is doomed to attract everything from raised eyebrows to terminology-holy-wars. (Speaking of holy-wars, try having a rational discussion over the meaning of "jihad"). Maybe that is the point -- to attract attention. Whatever the case, concept of "hacking" is ill-served by the term.
People should be curious, and free to pursue that curiosity in a responsible matter. That isn't something to learn, it is something to avoid un-learning. Once you have had it stamped out of your soul, I really wonder if you can pick it up again.
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Re:I hope they don't try to teach math... (Score:4, Insightful)
They mistakenly did 2^36 instead of 36^2.
I'll always remember the words of my HS maths teacher "A combination lock should be called a permutation lock".
With a safe or a password, "possibilities" means "permutations". 123 is distinct from 132 in that case. If we're talking "combinations", those are the same.