On Tue, Jul 23, 2002, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about "Re: Cracking lessons for teenagers": > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 06:09, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > > What they aren't right in, IMHO, is that such 13 y.o teenagers should get some > > life on their vacation instead of spending 18(sic!) hours a day at a computer > > - actually becoming computeroholics. > > Oh, right, they should play some more football. Have more "life", > according to your definition of "life". > > You're opening pandora's box on a geeks mailing list :)
It is indeed arguable whether soccer constitutes a "better" pastime than computer programming. But I think it is obvious (as this article also said) that 13 year-old kids are not (in all likelyness) going to need skills of how to protect heavy-duty servers. It's not like they are going to get a job protecting some bank's servers (actually, seeing Israeli banks' security recently, maybe they will ;)), and their home server doesn't need heavy- duty protection. So teaching kids cracking skills in the pretext that they are learning how to "protect" servers is a really transparent attempt to teach them illegal stuff. The kids are much better off learning "generic" computer and programming skills. As part of such generic studies, they might learn some advanced stuff like TCP/IP and firewalling, which might be relevant to protecting their machine - but they will mostly likely not need to learn "skills" like where to download rootkits, how to write assembly-language payload that does "stack smashing", how to write viruses and worms, and things like that. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Jul 23 2002, 14 Av 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Sign in pool: "Welcome to our OOL. Notice http://nadav.harel.org.il |there is no P, please keep it that way." ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
