More than 80 young people between the ages of 15 and 18 participated on Saturday in an event dedicated to cybersecurity and the opportunities, challenges and risks of the digital world, where they were even challenged to a 'hacking' competition.
"Do you have talent as a 'hacker'? Do you like to challenge yourself? Do you solve complex puzzles quickly? Do you like searching source codes for information? We are waiting for you," invited the re_B00TCMP web page.
The challenge was accepted by more than 80 young people between 15 and 18 years old who participated in the event promoted by the Public Security Police (PSP), the Judiciary Police (PJ), .PT, responsible for the management and registration of .pt domains, and the company Cybers3c.
In its first edition in Portugal, re_B00TCMP brought together young people, parents and teachers in a free event that, through debates, games, training actions and challenges, sought to encourage participants to deepen their digital skills and learn good cybersecurity practices.
"The digital world offers many opportunities, but it also demands responsibilities", highlighted director of the PJ's National Unit for Combating Cybercrime and Technological Crime, Carlos Cabreiro, quoted in a statement, explaining that the PJ is developing an 'online' game - ' Rage Quit' - which aims, precisely, to "prevent behavior associated with cybercrime".
Games were one of the many dynamics of the event, which took place at Escola 42, in Lisbon, and in which, at the end, participants were even challenged to a 'hacking' competition, in which they had to solve complex computer security problems.
Throughout the day, there was also space for conversations with professionals from the areas of cybersecurity, police, the video game industry and the European Union Agency for Police Cooperation (Europol), about potential academic and professional trajectories in information and communication technologies.
re_B00TCMP, held for the first time this year in Portugal, is the result of an international project, supported by the InterCOP network (International Cyber Offender Prevention Network), of which Portugal is a co-founder, which debuted in the Netherlands and was later replicated in Australia.
Initiatives like this, highlighted the national director of PSP, Luís Carrilho, are "essential to provide young people with the tools and knowledge necessary to navigate the digital world in a conscious, responsible and safe way".
