Girl Scouts to Offer Merit Badges in Cybersecurity
The Girl Scouts are going to be offering 18 merit badges in cybersecurity, to scouts as young as five years old.
The Girl Scouts are going to be offering 18 merit badges in cybersecurity, to scouts as young as five years old.
Fat Bastard • June 28, 2017 1:49 PM
FYI: Here are the names of the badges the girls can earn
jdgalt • June 28, 2017 2:02 PM
Even five-year-olds need to learn things such as not answering questions from phishing callers, even if they claim to be a relative, landlord, daddy’s boss, police, etc., and not accepting and using disks/thumbdrives/other media from unknown sources.
Chris Zweber • June 28, 2017 4:33 PM
@Fat Bastard
Tatütata • June 29, 2017 1:31 PM
They should be able to recycle and extend old and tested skills, such as first aid:
CallMeLateForSupper • July 1, 2017 12:20 PM
What, exactly, is wrong with this program that only one of the first six posts in this thread expresses support, or even positive words, for it? It deserves better, in my opinion.
If it were Boy Scouts of America announcing exactly the same program, for boys, I suspect expressed sentiments would be along the lines of “Great idea” or “It’s about time”.
(What the heck is “Amazon’s Alexia”?)
Tobey Cook • July 1, 2017 1:28 PM
I think this is a fantastic idea. The more young minds we can get involved with cybersecurity the better. They’re the next generation of ethical hackers and will be sorely needed if things keep escalating the way they have been.
NinjaGirl • July 3, 2017 10:20 PM
This is retarded. I don’t just make cookies… I code them; and I’m a CQB expert in MP5K… hoes.
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Ross Snider • June 28, 2017 1:19 PM
I sincerely look forward to the day I can look at resumes for pentesting/sysadministration/operations and see Girl Scout experience. Somehow it already seems more credible than “random Cisco certification here”.