A place where kids learn white-hat hacking to better the world

Through hands-on workshops and games, kids learn reverse engineering, soldering, cryptography and how to responsibly disclose security bugs

r00tz update: It’s been an interesting and challenging few years since r00tz IX in August of 2019, and we have some bitter-sweet news to share with you all:

rØØtz update

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Hacking gives you super-human powers. You can travel time & space. It is your responsibility to use these powers for good & only good.

These are hacker kids. From 8 to 16 years old, they gather at r00tz Asylum, held on the sidelines of the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas, to learn about cybersecurity from professionals and their peers. They picked locks and ripped apart laptops and other electronic gadgets to explore what's inside.

r00tz Asylum is a nonprofit dedicated to teaching kids around the world how to love being white-hat hackers. A white-hat hacker is someone who enjoys thinking of innovative new ways to make, break and use anything to create a better world.

Here is a set of core values and rules defining the proper conduct for r00tz.

white-hat Honor code

LEARNING FROM THE BEST

Featured Speakers from previous r00tz Asylum Conferences:

Samy Kamkar: Breaking the Locks

Kevin Mahaffey & Marc Rogers: Tesla Hack

Cory Doctorow: Information Security

røøtz Talks

Election-Hacking Lessons from the 2018 Def Con Hackers Conference

How This Teenage Hacker Became an Unlikely Star of London Fashion Week

For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing.

15 under 15: Rising stars in cybersecurity

Passcode: By Sara Sorcher & Ann Hermes

“R00tz is exposing children to the world of white-hat hacking to make the future of our digital world a bit safer.”

— Roberto Baldwin, Engadget

“Leading security researchers from around the world had gathered to teach this generation — and their parents — how to safely deploy the hacker mind-set in today’s increasingly digital world.”

— Andrea Peterson, Washington Post

“Maybe if you put a bunch of science and math and technical stuff in a play setting, the kids will accidentally learn something.”

— Jennifer Schlesinger & Sabrina Korber, CNBC

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