Hacking for Good: Bridging Culture and Tech for a Sustainable Future
The somewhat sinister concept of ‘hacking’ may be unclear to the general public. An intrusive crime of exploiting a computer system or personal information without authorized access. To some degree, we’re all scared of it – we buy security programs for our computers and encrypt our files in effort to stay safe from this vague, ominous threat.
Noah Merasty is throwing himself into the world of hacking, not to steal your banking information and baby photos, but to protect the data which needs to protecting.
“I’ve always been interested in this concept of hacking,” said Merasty. “So now, I’m learning how to hack, but doing it for good reasons.”
Merasty, a member of Flying Dust First Nation, is a second year Computer Science student at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), specializing in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI). His interest in hacking piqued when he started playing a video game, Cyberpunk 2077.