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Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers
Arno Igne writes to tell us that the number of underage participants in "high-tech" crimes has risen steeply in recent history. Reporting children as young as 11 swapping credit card details and asking for hacks, many are largely unskilled and thus more likely to get caught and arrested. "Communities and forums spring up where people start to swap malicious programs, knowledge and sometimes stolen data. Some also look for exploits and virus code that can be run against the social networking sites popular with many young people. Some then try to peddle or use the details or accounts they net in this way. Mr Boyd said he spent a lot of time tracking down the creators of many of the nuisance programs written to exploit users of social networking sites and the culprit was often a teenager."
The whole of western civilisation is DOOMED!!
Or at least until the kid stumbles across some p0rn links or pictures of drunk 18 year old girls and quickly forgets all about his l337 hacking attempts.
Never trust anybody over 25!
I agree...in fact I'm almost ashamed (no I am) to say that my first major experience with "hacking" was on my friends myspace pages. But it doesn't help that great movies like Hackers make young kids think that they can get with Angelina Jolie if they are just good at hacking. I blame society and the movie industry.
Yeah, but in this case they're doing it for lolz. I suggest lolkiddiez.
I wonder if kids had some kind of job if they would be less likely to steal or break the law.
I totally agree, but prostitution is illegal!
'a';DROP TABLE users; SELECT * FROM DATA WHERE name LIKE '%'... if you're reading this, it didn't work.
you son of a bitch! i have been looking for you for a long time!
Wow!! This is indeed dangerous:
"people start to swap malicious programs, knowledge and sometimes stolen data."
Where did they find the KNOWLEDGE in the first place ?
We need to fight at the source, find the KNOWLEDGE dealers and arrest them!
We need to make the fight against KNOWLEDGE a national priority, nominate a KNOWLEDGE tsar or something!
Will somebody think of the children!!
Mr Boyd said he spent a lot of time tracking down the creators of many of the nuisance programs written to exploit users of social networking sites and the culprit was often a teenager."
Get off my law... HEY GIMME MY PANTS BACK!
Free Martian Whores!