Archive for April, 2010

On April 1st (Teaching on a fool’s day, quite awesome) I took up my friend Sara on an offer, teach the students of her school how to be safe online. St Joe’s is a small parochial school in Dorchester, MA of ~ <80 students.

Teaching people how to be safe online is not an easy task.

Problem: Catch the students’ attention spans long enough for them to learn something
Solution: Use proof by induction, show them a hack in a safe environment to open their eyes.

My Lesson Plan :
Verified all the students have or had an IM account at some point. Then I loaded up aim on one machine, sent an IM to a remote machine and packet sniffed the message. The looks on their faces were in a word: Classic.
This peaked their interest as I described that there is no such thing as 100% security on the internet.
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Found Monitor arms on craigslist for a great deal:). My Goal to have as many monitors as possible is nearly complete . Currently 2 monitors per system (L to R, Deja, Mack, DeepWinter)

~Fred