turning rogue hackers into ethical ones
During the school breaks, city kids tend to spend too much time online and of course, when they’re at loose ends, they tend to get up to all sorts of mischief. Being parents, that means we have to be all the more vigilant of the types of things our kids are doing online.
I know for a fact that lots of kids think it’s really cool to be a hacker. I can see the glint in their eyes at the very prospect of it. They hero-worship the real life hackers, yes, even the ones that have been caught and sent to prison.
Well, hacking isn’t all bad though. Many hackers leave jail, turn over a new leaf and later become ‘ethical hackers’, the people employed in IT Security positions where they identify areas of system weaknesses and help catch hackers.
For those interested in pursuing a career in IT security, the EC-Council offers courses in such areas as security fundamentals, Ethical Hacking, penetration testing, secure programming, disaster recovery and computer forensics.
They have live, online, instructor-led training courses that anyone can do from home. I mean, if someone loves the highs of hacking for fun, they might as well be an ethical hacker and make an honest living out of it, right?
yeah i agree minutechaser and just to add something in it, i don’t think just being a vigilant to our kids would assure us that we know what they’re up to, all the time.. obviously they tend to find ways to get rid of us in those stuffs for sure.. the only thing that makes me confident is on how close i am to my kids, i trust them and they respect me so i guess that’s all that matters, a nice bond in the family where parents and kids love and respect each other.
just my two cents.