On 2/8/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/