Indigenous USask student aspires to become ‘legal’ hacker – USask
Sep 18, 2024
Computer science major Noah Merasty had opportunity to conduct research with NSERC grant as a first year undergraduate student
A video game helped inspire Indigenous student Noah Merasty to major in computer science at the University of Saskatchewan (USask).
The game Cyberpunk 2077 featured characters called “net runners” who were hackers.
“I figured it would be cool to be a hacker,” Merasty said. He added that depictions of hackers in media often portrayed the characters as having almost magical abilities to overcome impossible feats.
