University Offers Degree In Computer Hacking
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The University of Abertay in Dundee UK, is offering the first 3 year course in computer hacking.
The course will teach students about the intricacies of computer security systems and how to get round them. Applicants will be subjected to a vetting process overseen by the Home Office and Foreign Office to ensure undesirables don't equip themselves with a cyberterrorism kit.
The course will teach students about the intricacies of computer security systems and how to get round them. Applicants will be subjected to a vetting process overseen by the Home Office and Foreign Office to ensure undesirables don't equip themselves with a cyberterrorism kit.
Source: The InquirerIn a statement, the head of the school of computing, Professor Lachlan MacKinnon said, "We will be monitoring the students very closely because we want them to come out of the other end as ethical hackers."
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Heh, there was only 6 of us anyway.
What was that? Exagerate that, I'm interested
Governments around the world employ white-hat computer hackers as security consultants and specialists to monitor and launch counter-offencives against foreign governments or the people they harbor. Prior to the introduction of this degree, the people they hired were pretty much the hackers who managed to elude the law long enough to impress someone in a government's HR.
Sounds like the best vetting system the government has ever employed
Network Security Administration, Forsyth Technical Comm College.
Learned everything from executing an SSL redirect attack to inserting Netcat, social engineering, pretty much everything under the sun you can learn for Windows and Linux in 2.5 years.
Unfortunately our professor got a job working for Red Hat in Raleigh 2 semesters after I graduated the class. They still have it, but I have heard the course isn't nearly as good now. There were only 6 of us that made it to grad out of a 23 person class if that tells you anything.
This reminds me of a friend I have down in texas, when he was 12 or so, his dad got him a computer and got him coding. Well, lets say that he is an awesome coder and a better hacker. He had the computers at his highschool doing some funny stuff, nothing destructive, just funny(annoying to the users). Well, they never could catch him, but the teachers all new of his abbilities and told the principle, and the principle suspended him becase: "We know you did it, we just can catch you..etc" He said that he started laughing at the principal and asked him if he was serious. alas the principal was, and he was suspended for one week.