Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
About 20 high school students have been spending this week at Norwich University solving fictional crimes in cyberspace. They’re attending a free summer camp funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency. The NSA calls these sleuthing sessions “gen-cyber camps: inspiring the next generation of cyber stars.” There are about 40 different programs nationwide. In a cyber-security computer lab at Norwich University, 17- and 18-year olds dig for clues to a bank robbery being planned by Bonnie and Clyde. Camp co-director Katya Lopez says the exercise re-writes the history of the infamously elusive bank robbers. “They’ve committed the actual crimes that they are planning, but instead of communicating through phones and letters as they were known to do, they’re now using email and sending attachments to their documents and plans,” she says. On the blackboard are questions the kids are trying to answer by trolling for sent emails, hidden computer files and other digital detritus. “Are Bonnie and Clyde married?” “Are there other gang members?” “What kind of car might they be driving?” “Can they foresee their deaths?” The campers are not allowed to Google the answers, or screen Bonnie and Clyde’s biopic. They’re just wielding the same […]
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