The immersive terminal-based hacking simulator, which is also being translated into Simple Chinese, follows the trail of a famed hacker, Bit, who has recently died. “I was teaching a lot of this stuff just by accident and the teaching side of this is becoming a bigger deal so I’m working on a special version geared towards schools and universities.” “Everyone who’s gone through the game is less scared of computers and much more prepared to deal with technical problems in a sensible way – they know how to use a terminal, they know the basics of computer security, they know fundamental skills that I think if everyone knew then the world would be a much safer place, especially online. “It’s got a really good base for putting it into high schools or training courses for businesses and military programs, it just teaches this baseline technical competence and confidence. “It turns out that US Pacific Command’s cyber warfare division already buys Hacknet and runs all their new recruits through it – it’s a big deal and I originally had no idea that this was something really very valuable at all,” Trobbiani said.
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