Re:Cool Idea (Score 1)

crazyphilman writes: Still, there's GOT to be a better way to spin this to the media. People are bound to react badly, don't you think? I don't have a lot of faith in people suddenly developing open minds... :)

You're absolutely right. But for better or worse, I don't have editorial control of what the media says about this program. If I did, would you trust anything I said (not that you do now, but hypothetically speaking :-)?

On the one hand people will react badly when they see "hacker school." On the other hand, the very controversy surrounding the word "hacker" (or even whether it's the right word) brings public attention to the issue of information security and initiates an open dialog. The mission of the ISF is to raise public awareness of INFOSEC issues, so from that standpoint we've succeeded.

I just hope that our good deed will go unpunished.

Andy