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So here we sit at home, enjoying a long spell of enforced togetherness with our loved ones. If those loved ones include children, then our houses have become classrooms. That means pulling lessons together — and what better lesson to teach than cybersecurity?
Here at Dark Reading we aim to provide useful information for our readers, no matter where they're spending their working hours. With that in mind, we put the word out that we were looking for projects that could teach useful cybersecurity lessons with a bit of fun mixed in, and people have begun to respond. Today's project features cybersecurity and robots, and can teach a wide variety of lessons about each.
Before we get to the project, a request for the reader: If you have created a project to teach cybersecurity lessons to young people, we'd love to hear from you. If it's inexpensive, so much the better, but nothing is out of bounds as long as it teaches something useful and is enough fun to keep kids interested.
An insecure robot
Travis Smith is principal security researcher at Tripwire. One part of his job is working with interns brought into the company each year. These interns, most of which are high school students, come to the position to learn, but Smith says that many bring important knowledge with them.
"Every year we have interns we hire for the summer, ty ..
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