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Monday, December 10, 2012

Baldwin Students & Cybersecurity: More than Just Facebook Tips

Baldwin High, World Affairs Councils host an international student summit on cyber-warfare.

On Dec. 7, 1941, 353 Japanese aircrafts attacked and killed 2,402 Americans at a Hawaii naval base, essentially drawing the United States into World War II. And that was even before computer hackers. Students from around the globe directed their eyes toward a Baldwin High School classroom on the anniversary of that Attack on Pearl Harbor, which served as a semi-fitting backdrop for an international student summit at the high school on Friday. The online summit, brought to Baldwin High by the World Affairs Councils of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and made possible by technology from Twitter, Skype and the Philadelphia-based MAGPI network, linked together students from Pennsylvania, Texas and Islamabad, Pakistan, to tackle the ever-changing …

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