I am an avid Maker, Hacker, and Researcher. I teach my kids to hack, pick locks, look things up, and question authority. I'm also the co-founder of ISECOM (www.isecom.org) and as Managing Director am directly involved in all ISECOM projects. In 2000, I created the OSSTMM (www.osstmm.org) for security testing and analysis. I am still the lead developer of the OSSTMM but have also lead the organization into new research challenges like Smarter Safer Better (www.smartersaferbetter.org), the Bad People Project (www.badpeopleproject.org), Hacker Highschool (www.hackerhighschool.org) and the Home Security Methodology (http://isecom.org/research/hsm.html). My strong interest in the properties of trust and how it affects us and our lives has led to developing trust metrics and through that have brought ISECOM more deeply into Human Security.
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Thanks Miles! I'm an avid follower of MIT "old days" stories and have read many. I wish I could have been there! I barely got into college as it was so I'm lucky I was encouraged by my parents and friends to pursue it. So there was no way I was getting into MIT! Maybe that's why I like hearing about it so much. I did get to work in the early, mainframe computer lab on campus as a "monitor" to fetch print-outs for the compsci students which gave me time on those "expensive" computers to program and explore. Any way, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Timothy! I'm always happy to meet other teachers interested in making hackers. As I see it, in a few years their vote will count the same as mine and I'd rather they have their own, educated, non-media-influenced, opinion :) I never intended to write any kind of manifesto, but thanks and I hope it inspires many people to help young people grow!