Worth a look and deserves our support!


http://www.hackerteen.com

Don

this is so great.  Not just because I am a recovering comic nerd, but I think it is good to have some form of pop culture promoting security and not the actual hacking part.  I actually thought about this in great detail before...Every group has a good and bad counter part.  There is nothing out there to counter the Hacker image.  A kid may grow up wanting to be a hacker...but why would he grow up thinking "I want to be a security analyst!".  At one time kids thought Al Capone was so cool.  Then Elliot Ness, the FBI  and other things filled the white hat void.

Very cool!

I've just taken a closer look at the site and think it could be really useful for anyone starting out as a kid.

The section that really caught my attention was 'For Parents'. It could make a lot a people's lives easier if they had some way of explaining to on non-technical parent what it really means to be a hacker. From my perspective I was lucky, my mother read the first few chapters of 'A complete hacker's handbook' by Dr-K (at least until the binary and TCP/IP stuff confused her), after that I got no more complaints (and a few more books for christmas).

However, after I recently moved in with my girlfriend I still get od comments from friends/relatives when the read the titles on my bookshelf. This sort of information, if it gets wide exposure, could increase the number of talented individuals able to enter the profession and possibly increase the level of awareness and funding available from other parts of the business if the suits and beancounters can better understand what they are paying for.

I actually saw this in Barnes & Noble a few days ago.
It's very interesting, but I hope the comicbook style doesn't give people the wrong idea.