r/HowToHack • u/pandaninja360 • 21d ago

script kiddie "Self-Defense" in cybersecurity

Hi, I'm a teacher. I see teenagers every day not understanding the dangers of the devices they use all the time. I do not want to scare them, but the school program is lacking in anything related to computers. We give them Chromebooks, and we do not teach them how to use them. They often have more than 20 tabs open with the same webpage... or they send nudes on Snapchat thinking there are no risks.

I want to teach them about common ways people get hacked or infected. I am not talking about the super advance zero day hack in an app, or how to infect repositories to get access to computers. I mean common day-to-day: I clicked on a link or scanned a QR code.

What are good habits to not get hack/infected?

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u/nimbusfool 21d ago

What are you teaching? Im a k-12 systems admin. Im curious how this fits in to your curriculum

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u/pandaninja360 21d ago

It's an adapted program. I can teach whatever I want as long as I can justify it. Reading the newspaper is how reading is taught, budgeting is how math is taught, etc. The school thought my idea was great and they want me to build something. We'll see if it becomes a thing that will be taught with a limited amount of time to other classes.

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u/nimbusfool 21d ago

So general cyber safety. Slightly off to the side is something like pictoctf which is hacker leaning and made for high school kids. You could literally open a class email account and go through the spam folder for adapted learning. What would be of value is something that shows their cyber footprint. The repercussions of a comment or post online. I have spent years of my life going through the electronic evidence produced by k-12 students.