14 DAY TRIAL // A place for disadvantaged teens to find their way into the intricate world of hacking is being planned to be set up in Glenorchy, New Zealand.
It is aimed to be a school, where tech skills would be honed for hacking and cyber-espionage activities.
The project is currently in a very incipient stage and it is nursed by Kirsha Kaechele, who is married to professional gambler David Walsh, founder of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).
Kaechele, an artist and philantropist herself, hopes that the school will benefit from the support of the Defense Department, as well as of different private companies.
In an interview with TasWeekend, she said that cyber-skills can help someone in entrepreneurial activities such as launching tech start-ups; however, they can also be put in the service of the government.
It appears that the school is envisioned as a center for training future spies, with biometric gates and a number of students limited to just 13, according to The Mercury.
However, the entire project is at the moment nothing more than a seed of a plan and it could take a while until it reaches a more solid ground.
Creating spaces for teaching hacking and cyber-security is not a bad plan; multiple countries have already started to do it, sometimes classes being taught by professionals in the industry even to high-school level students.