Saturday, July 18, 2015

What Could Go Wrong

Hey, why don't we train our own computer hacker supervillains? Perfect.
The dozen or so teenagers staring at computers in a Marymount University classroom here on a recent day were learning — thanks to a new National Security Agency cybersecurity program that reaches down into the ranks of American high school and middle school students — the entry-level art of cracking encrypted passwords.

I get that the NSA doesn't exactly have a monopoly on this knowledge, but...