Jun 30
Hacker school?
“Sporting long sideburns, a bushy goatee and black baseball cap, instructor Ralph Echemendia has a class of 15 buttoned-down corporate, academic and military leaders spellbound. The lesson: hacking. The students huddled over laptops at a Los Angeles-area college have paid nearly $4,000 to attend ‘hacker college,’ a computer boot camp designed to show how people will try to break into network systems—and how they will succeed. ‘It’s an amazing thing how insecure the big corporations are,’ Echemendia said during a break in the weeklong seminar. ‘It’s just amazing how easy it is.’” (06/27/04)
This piece, via Rational Review is one of those wonderful opportunities to start prattling on about how it was back in my day…
Back in my hacking days I was self-taught and so were all my fellow white-hackers. I can’t imagine going to class to learn how to hack. Hacking is a thing that you have to learn by your own wits and persistence. This lot have no chance beating the spotty cranky adolescents bent on finding out what nooks and crannies they can get into in the wee hours of the morning.
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everything is for sale.
nothing wrong with learning from others.
I was reading an article the other day about how a senior executive (or something?) at IBM had said that almost all of the best hackers and programmers were self-taught from experimentation, books and hanging out with other hackers.