Canadian University to Begin Training Hackers 379
torok writes "According to an article at The Edmonton Journal, The University of Calgary is going to start teaching select computer science students to write software viruses in a special new disconnected lab. Will Canada be accused of training the world's next generation of cyber-terrorists... or peacekeepers?"
AWWWW YEAH HAY DOOD L@@K HERE (Score:2, Funny)
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WHO LET THE H4X0RS OUT?
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WHO LET THE H4X0RS OUT?
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WHO LET THE H4X0RS OUT?
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WHO LET THE H4X0RS OUT?
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Good. (Score:1, Funny)
I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
wait, wait, don't tell me... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh! Oh! I Know! Is it...terrorists?
Triv
Terrorist training center in Canada (Score:4, Funny)
Resume (Score:5, Funny)
Skills:
Comment:
While I realize the above skills may not be entirely useful for the position described, I have noted that you do have an internet connection to your primary server via IP address 66.35.250.150. Would you like me to tell you your root password during an interview, or should I be ready work at 8:30am tomorrow?
Re:Crackers (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:O'Canada (Score:5, Funny)
We also maintain a threatening lead in Zamboni technology. [This borrowed from Canadian Bacon].
Re:hype (Score:5, Funny)
I was out sick for 2 weeks a few months ago with a virus so that explains a lot but I'm dammed if I know where they got the other half trillion from.
Re:Crackers (Score:2, Funny)
Crackers you pay for, Hackers you get for free as a M$ like bonus feature to the WWW
Re:Resume (Score:2, Funny)
Me: "I have noted that you do have an internet connection to your primary server via IP address 66.35.250.150. Would you like me to tell you your root password ?"
Them: "Oh really? Can you fix my Microsoft Explorer? It won't come up."
Me: "But, if I can get in, anyone else can too!"
Them: "That's okay, there's nothing important on my computer!"
Me: "But they could launch an attack on other computers, they could get personal information or sniff traffic"
Them: (laughs) "Look, I've a got a firewall, nobody can get in"
Me: "No that's just a file on your desktop titled 'firewall'.. it's just an empty text file! Don't you see the file I added under it titled 'HEY SHIT-FOR-BRAINS YOUR SHARES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.txt'"????
Them: "Yeah, that Bill Gates sure thinks of everything! What a genius! Imagine what the world would be like without the MSN internet!"
etc.
Cyber Terrorism? Blame Canada! (Score:2, Funny)
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cHris
Oh great... (Score:0, Funny)
Finally! (Score:3, Funny)
Wait, I meant liberate Canada from cyber terrorists.
So now we have (Score:4, Funny)
If America and Canada got into a war, where would all the draft dodgers go?
Re:Just tools (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, until they have a power trip, turn to the dark side, turn against their former masters, then go on a wear-only-black-and-conquer-the-galaxy binge, only to be struck down by their own son, who they were trying to turn evil at the time.
Getting 0wn3d by your own son is bad enough, but it's somewhat more humiliating when you open your son's email only to get a nasty VB worm that pops up a message saying "h4x0r3d by j00r k1dd13 - l00k3".
Re: i can just see the film... (Score:5, Funny)
And all the computer scenes have to use a bizarre and unique 3D styled UI, that looks wholly unusable, and slightly, if not completely frustrating.
Geee, I can't wait *lays on the fake exuberance*. These things always happen when something becomes more mainstream.
Re:Crackers (Score:4, Funny)
From post #5336611
"Let them refer to crackers as 'hackers.' We'll just switch to referring to hackers as 'gods.'
Re:O'Canada (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't curling a winter sport?
Re:Crackers (Score:1, Funny)
*Removes Plastic Vulcan Ears*
*tries to think of a lecture for tonight in place of 'Hacker vs. Cracker*
Too Funny... (Score:2, Funny)
I could prove it: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~erik [ucalgary.ca]
But, looks like someone has been doing some early studying for the course; our DNS is pooched. Oh well, its after hours now - it'll have to wait until tomorrow...
Kirk did it. (Score:5, Funny)
For your final exam, there's a security certified server that holds your results. If you can give yourself an A+, you probably deserve it.
Xix.
Re:Hacking ethics (Score:3, Funny)
News flash: Our beer contains alcohol! (Score:3, Funny)
They're not terrorists (Score:5, Funny)
Re: i can just see the film... (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, the former star student would be in jail and would be released a la The Jackal to catch the mad professor. Then they would let him "disappear" only to find him later at a cybercafe dead due to bloodclots in his legs...
Re:wait, wait, don't tell me... (Score:3, Funny)
The Mounties? I shudder at the thought of a burly man, sitting in his underwear in front of the computer, wearing a mounty hat. We must think of the cost of keeping the peace, and decide if it's worth that cost.
Re:They might be accused... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Crackers (Score:2, Funny)
Kernel hackers is a false term. Anyone who was there when the term "hackers" was invented knows that it refers to unauthorized entry to a computer system.
Ah, so you were a member of the MIT Model Railway Club back in the 1960s when the term "hacker" was invented (and long before networked computers became popular). OK then, thanks for enlightening us all.
Re:Crackers (Score:3, Funny)
The media gets it wrong because of their limited idea of what anyone would want to do with a strange computer system. (The media doesn't get any other field "right" either
C Hacker? Right.
Unix Hacker? Right.
Kernel Hacker? Right.
PL/I Hacker? Never heard of it.
MVS Hacker? Never heard of it.
COBOL Hacker? You gotta be kidding.
In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
Simple answer... (Score:3, Funny)
Sun Tzu