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 for the kind feedback! I would say an innovator is a hacker when a hacker successfully innovates :) Hacking is learning and sometimes no innovation comes of it. Sometimes it's just change or taking ownership.
Thanks Bill! I followed up as a comment to your blog post: http://mackenty.org/index.php/dev/comments/hacking_in_high_school_yes_but