Peter Packet The Cisco Security Game

antdude writes "A forum user at Broadbandreports.com found Peter Packet, Cisco's Security Game. Peter can dodge viruses, evade hackers, the whole nine yards. That is the real reason why the Internet is safe! There is a cool introduction, music, games, informative stuff (educational), etc. Quite amusing. You need Flash to view it."

Yahoo?!?

[Donoho]

I hope Yahoo sponsored that little yelp as he dove through the door...

Re:Wow...

[Dark Lord Seth]

Too many cutscenes though.

I suggest you stay away from anything related to "Final Fantasy"...

Ha ha

[idiot900]

I actually enjoyed this blatant advertisement of a game. The theme song is cheesy but catchy and the gameplay is actually fun. (In one of the minigames, you have to stand in for a broken router until the new shiny ass-kicking Cisco router gets there.) The things it teaches about routing and security are oversimplified but are close enough to the truth for the average person.

And I laughed out loud upon learning that the stated objective is to carry an email to its destination - for the benefit of a poor little Indian girl whose father can't work because he burned his hands while at his job at the match factory.

Re:Ha ha

[MarkGriz]

And I laughed out loud upon learning that the stated objective is to carry an email to its destination - for the benefit of a poor little Indian girl whose father can't work because he burned his hands while at his job at the match factory.

And she needs to walk 3 (wait, now 4) hours each way for clean water. Maybe Peter should carry some packets from this webserver [pub.gov.sg]

Re:Ha ha

[Frenchy_2001]

The things it teaches about routing and security are oversimplified but are close enough to the truth for the average person.

The best video to show to people to explain what the internet is and how it works:

Warriors of the NET [warriorsofthe.net]

+1, Funny

[dago]

Now, that's a really good commercial (well, just the opening song/animation)

Just not to be taken on the first degree ....

Did he retire from superherodom?

[mbstone]

Poor Peter, life as Spidey must have gotten boring after a while... Oh, -Peter Packet-. Never mind.

CISCO Class...

[JorDan Clock]

My CISCO class is often reprimanded for playing this game when we're supposed to be reading the boring modules. When we first discovered it, our teacher couldn't believe that it was on the acually CISCO website. The sad thing is, that game does a better job of explaining certain things than the modules do. Those things tell you what you need and only what you need.... Now, if they would only put Quake 3 up on their site, it would make it much easier for us to play in class, although, that doesn't stop us

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Plot.

[MindStalker]

I'm not sure if the game is just an excuse for the plot, the plot is just an excuse for the social lesson, or the social lesson is just a plot to teach us that packets are people too, I mean to buy cisco routers.

Hacker's Are Evil!!

[thewolfmansays]

Damn you Cisco for perpetuating the negative hacker stereotype. I can't believe that the 'bad guy' is the evil, data stealing hacker. And who the hell wears a hat like that anyway?

Three words:

[cmpkilla]

Totally Badical Dude!!!!!!

Broadband Reports' forum thread URL...

[antdude]

FYI. http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,11653 142~mode=flat [broadbandreports.com]. Not sure why Zonk removed that URL from my submission. :(

Re:Broadband Reports' forum thread URL...

[BeesTea]

=) -BeesT

Re:Broadband Reports' forum thread URL...

[antdude]

Heh.

Loading....

[node159]

Would be nice if it I could actually get past the cut scenes and actually play.

So far the game seems incredibly boring consisting of watching 'loading..' with crap 2 sec cut scene every so often

Beat the Game

[subzerorz]

Beat the game, and you automatically earn a CCIE Certification. Yeahh.