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Spanish  Training a new breed of hacker  Filed under  Barcelona
is home to an innovative new project designed to combat hacking.
The Hacker High School is at the University of La Salle, in the
same department that churns out some of the best of Barcelona's
designers.  The scheme is not the "devil's workshop" it might
sound but, say its organisers, aims to tackle a modern-day
taboo.  Likening current attitudes to hacking to old repressed
notions of sex, they say many are doing it, but few are talking
about it.  Pete Herzog, managing director of the organisation
that set it up, says: "If you go back 50 years ago what was sex
education? Sex education was 'sex is out there, don't do it,
you'll get diseases'.  "We have the same situation now. We can't
really tell you what hacking is.  "You'll get worms in your
e-mail box all the time. Somebody will probably put Trojans on
your computer. Something will happen.  "You'll see it, but
everyone who is doing t