Criminals Target Tech Students With Job Offers

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is running a story on criminal gangs targeting tech students. Some of these outfits offer to pay for an education in exchange for the student's employment on graduation in criminal hacking activities." From the article: " As the number of criminal gangs looking to move into cyber crime expanded, it got harder to recruit skilled hackers, said Mr Day. This has led criminals to target university students all around the world. 'Some students are being sponsored through their IT degree,' said Mr Day. Once qualified, the graduates go to work for the criminal gangs. As well as the direct route of targeting students, some organised crime gangs were trading on the glamour surrounding the 'hacker' label to help them recruit impressionable youngsters..."

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US Military

[Bios_Hakr]

The US military has been doing this for years. Sign up and kill people for 4 years and we pay for your degree. The GI Bill is quite nice. Also, while you are still in, the Veterans' Administration pays for 100% of your tuition and 50% of your wife's tuition.

Actually what's far more likely than either

[symbolset]

Is that the college student will be killed or maimed by a drunk driver : http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats /finaldeaths04/finaldeaths04_tables.pdf#2 , or any one of a dozen other pointless unnecessary ways.

Apparently Verizon and whiny liberals are both bad at math.

Don't get me wrong -- I love and respect our soldiers. That so many step up to do their duty gives me hope that America may yet survive. But statistically far more Americans are killed by medical accident, influenza, a host of other causes.

Let's not pretend that for an American going to war is more dangerous than commuting on the freeway. It was so once, but it isn't any more.

If you want to be honest and still win points with Hanoi Jane, argue that it costs money. That at least is true.