From: dotslash at snosoft.com (KF)
Subject: USDOJ BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES

> 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.

-KF

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