Ah Carmen Sandiego animation on Netflix. Introducing the next generation of kids to white hat hackers (literally, mentioned within minutes in the first ep), lockpicking, opsec, social engineering and more. Ep 2 she's tailgating the accountant going into the server room pretending to work in IT.
Galante posited that the simplest way to take down a democracy is to turn its most powerful asset, the open minds of citizens, into a vulnerability.
"You need to get people in democracies to start questioning the system, to make it occur to them that their institutions are failing them, that the country they knew is in freefall," she said. "To do that, you need to infiltrate the information spheres of these democracies."
Galante noted that for a long time, the general public was more focused on the content of the hacked DNC emails than the news that the hacks came from a known Russian intelligence unit called APT 28 (also known as Pawn Storm or Fancy Bear).
I have been a beneficiary of grant funding and it's good access to money (I was actually ready to lose hosting on the site as I could not afford it - this was not a software project though). And after that you write a report which just needs to match the grant's purpose.
The big drawback to it is that you need a longer term, what to do when grant funding runs out, since ordinarily I would not be getting a $xk income with the project. So grants are good as a big flush to work on a component of the project that would hopefully lead to more ways longer term to financially sustain yourself.