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Re: USDOJ BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES
From: KF <dotslash () snosoft com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:40:45 -0700
The fact is it we need to take measures that help children understand hacking. This is hardly an issue of brain- washing. It is an issue of survival as a society. The more we help children understand about malicious hacking, the less likely they will perform these acts later in life. That only benefits society on a universal scale.
Imagine if they would have done something like that with future <insert company name here> coders... Impress into their brains to not code security holes in to <web server xyz> in the first place.
> Imagine if someone could have swayed the group of "hackers" > that destroyed a laboratory's long-term cancer research by > teaching them the necessity of universal survival as children. How about if they swayed the admin (as a child) to just patch his box up...Don't get me wrong...I will agree that educating children to not hack *could* cut down on attacks however it does nothing to stop the vulnerabilities that exist in soooooo many products. Time would be better spent educating the kids about how vulnerabilities are caused and what they could do to help prevent the issues to begin with. Teach these kids to not use strcpy into a fixed buffer or something.
Remember when your Dad told you not to drink beer.... what did that make you want to do? ... taste this forbidden drink he spoke of. Tell them not to hack and they simply become more currious about the forbidden fruit. Teach them to understand vulnerabilities and their causes ... maybe they will help make a safer internet to begin with.
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