GCHQ is promoting a programme in dozens of primary and secondary schools where children are being taught how to launch a “cyber attack” against “a large school or university”, how to hack passwords and “vulnerable machines”, and how to spy on other children’s wifi traffic.
The programme, known as the Cyber Schools Hub or CyberFirst, is operated in partnership with Cyber Security Associates (CSA) – a company set up by former members of the Ministry of Defence (MOD)’s Joint Cyber Offensive Unit, which is housed at GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham, southwest England.
Documents seen by Declassified suggest that CSA has worked closely with GCHQ to design the schools programme from the beginning, and that GCHQ is using taxpayers’ money to pay the company to develop “cyber security” products.
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