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Tired of canoeing and campfires? Try an NSA summer cyber-camp

Candy talks to local camp head Diane Murphy and tech thinker Arthur Chu about NSA's cyber-security summer camps.
An NSA-sponsored camp in Arlington, Virginia. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

For some kids, summer camp means learning to tie knots and build shelters. For others, it means learning how to hack.

The National Security Agency's new summer camp program is dedicated to teaching teens cyber security. But should the NSA — the agency responsible for gathering private information on American citizens — be the ones dictating the conversation on information security?

Guest host Candy Palmater talks to Diane Murphy, the head of Marymount University's cyber-camp this summer, about why she feels the program is crucial. Then, we check in with tech thinker Arthur Chu on why the NSA's involvement in the camps has him concerned.