Could Your Teenager Be a Hacker?

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Is your teenager online all the time? Do they spend a lot of time alone in their room? Does your teen play a lot of violent video games or use social media? Congrats, your kid is probably a 1337 hA><0r and it's all your fault. The FBI will be by soon to have a "chat" with your kid.

Did you know that the average age of a cybercriminal is now just 17 years? We're on the cusp of 'generation cyber' - those who have grown up surrounded by the Internet. Recent research we have conducted found that one in ten 16 to 19 year olds knows someone who has engaged in some form of illegal activity; if you think of an average A-Level class of 20 students - that's one or two teens in every class! So it could be your own teenager that's involved in illegal cyber-activity.
 
Pressing a button on an UI that depicts a cannon in geostationary orbit does not constitute hacking.
Same way the Nigerian Businessmen are not respected black hats with regular offers from top AV agencies.
 
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<felix:#916> there is a DEAD RAT in our server room
<felix:#916> it's like, ROTTING
<felix:#916> STUCK UNDER A CABINET AND NOBODY CAN GET TO IT
<felix:#916> 8 or 9" long, overall
<asphyxia:#916> damn packet kiddies
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If your teen as access to a computer then the answer is yes.
 
Recent research we have conducted found that one in ten 16 to 19 year olds knows someone who has engaged in some form of illegal activity

Only 1 in 10? That's a much better number than I expected based on the movie/music industry claims and all the "personal" pictures being shared.
Maybe they meant 9 in 10 :)
 
When I was a kid, we did pranks, toilet papered trees, some egged cars, I didn't ever feel right doing things that actually damaged property. I think most kids these days aren't really that different. I just think that when it comes to online stuff, it's harder to recognize some things as actually cause damage so maybe it's a little easier to slip past their conscience.

Combine that with an evolving system of values and we'll see behavior that for some older people, really sounds bad, evil even. Easy for the ignorant to fear such things and see them as worse then what they are.


Then again, there are some real turds out their these days.
 
Recent research we have conducted found that one in ten 16 to 19 year olds knows someone who has engaged in some form of illegal activity

Only 1 in 10? That's a much better number than I expected based on the movie/music industry claims and all the "personal" pictures being shared.
Maybe they meant 9 in 10 :)


No, the RIAA has already done great research on the subject and they have identified their most feared demographic as the 60-85 year old age group. It's still all about those damn hippies. they just never had any respect for anyone :p
 
There's only one way to tell: Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

Hillarious!!!!

Of course, "back in the day", when I was a teen there were these things called modems -- and it was always fun to run war dialers to see who had systems connected up and then see if they had any passwords to speak of, and most didn't. A good case in point would be the local Hardee's, that a friend of mine (who sadly, actually passed away from cancer a couple of years back) discovered that they had their heat and air system tied to a computer control system, that was connected via modem for remote access. Let's just say that he had a merry olde time driving them crazy one summer until they apparently realized what was going on and changed the password.

Ah, yes, the good old days of war dialers, MCI codes, blue boxes, red boxes, etc. and all the amazing and interesting things one could find on a BBS (anyone else remember Rusty & Edie's? :D).....

I was generally the one who was too chicken to actually do anything other than sit back and watch my buddies do all sorts of stuff, while I muttered that they were screwed totally if they ever got caught -- which, fortunately for them, they didn't. But, oh the stories I could tell. The teen years, that wondrous time where you have achieved enough intelligence to do everything that you have not yet acquired the wisdom to realize you shouldn't!
 
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I'm just glad I did my stupid shirt on the internet before everything was cyberterrorism. I hope I would have had some sense if I was that age now, but I kind of doubt it. One of my IRC buddies got a visit from the secret service though; he responded with something stupid to an email his friend sent him spoofed from [email protected]. He knew it was spoofed and thought a reply would go back to his friend.
 
Seriously this. We got away with so much stuff as kids. When I was a teenager I used to stay up all hours of the night looking for SQL injections, remote file uploads, etc. just to see what kind of interesting stuff I could stumble across. I also think that people didn't really understand the importance of security back in the day so everything was a lot more lax. I'm not going to name any names because idk how long the statute of limitations are on that kind of stuff but there were soooo many large corporations that had 0 security.
 
I'm just glad I did my stupid shirt on the internet before everything was cyberterrorism. I hope I would have had some sense if I was that age now, but I kind of doubt it. One of my IRC buddies got a visit from the secret service though; he responded with something stupid to an email his friend sent him spoofed from [email protected]. He knew it was spoofed and thought a reply would go back to his friend.

Whoops, forgot the quote.
 
Oh some of the shit I did when I was younger and on IRC.

Also got in trouble a few times in high school because we had a shitty admin who ran a totally unsecure Novell Network - this was about the time of the clombine stuff so yeah. Same admin was a dickhole and said us playing quake was "sucking up too much resources".

Glad we uploaded tons of fucked up porn to his directory on the school network.

Sad fact is - the news and anyone unfamiliar with the topic will call anyone a hacker.... know how to program the TV remote? You are now a hacker! The term is so diluted it means nothing these days. Nobody wants to sit and watch a real hacker pour through lines of code for hours and hours, or tinkering with seemingly pointless things.
 
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