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Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends
kierny writes "Hackers/crackers who get arrested are typically male and young adults — if not minors. Why is that? According to research by online psychology expert Grainne Kirwan, it's because the typical hacker 'ages out' once they get a girlfriend, job, kids, and other responsibilities that make it difficult to maintain their hacking/cracking/hacktivist lifecycle. Could that finding offer a way to help keep more young hacking enthusiasts out of jail?"
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This is as retarded as the last story. Timothy must be taking his stupid pills today.
The Girlfriend(tm) could solve a lot of problems young adolescent males have... someone should patent that...
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Probably the most effective idea yet. A girlfriend is a lot more fun than a computer, at that age anyway.
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This approach has been used to rehabilitate terrorists as well. This idea is hardly new. http://bigthink.com/ideas/17036 "This is based on the belief that you’ve got to give these young men a stake in society and it’s been reasonably successful, although Al-Qaida is so cunning." It has some merit, but its an expensive and difficult process.
Of course they were married. Why do you think they volunteered?
That's my takeaway from this.
Then again that's my takeaway from most discussions.
A modest proposal?
First, implying that this is only a problem for men is stupid. Women without responsibilities get into trouble too, often with consequences far beyond simple criminal mischief. Secondly, getting saddled with a relationshp does decrease the tendancy towards crime -- but then so does getting a car, a job, a house, etc. It'd be more accurate to say that criminals commit crime because they have less to lose.
That's a terribly obvious thing to say, and it also provides no insight into what to do to achieve it. Should we institute arranged marriages? A chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage? Should we force employers to hire people with a criminal record? Please, do tell. I'm all ears.
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You know how hard it is to find a girl who likes guys who are overweight, work on computers, have an affinity for Cheetos, Mountain Dew, and avoiding showers?
Back in the early days, hackers were young hobbyists.
The people who are most dangerous now are simply criminals who've learned to operate computers.
Teenage and young adult hacking is part of the learning process and should be encouraged as part of the growth process. Most of those people will go on to futures in computer science.
The criminals will not.
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I just wanted to congratulate TFA's authors for this incredibly novel approach to finding a girlfriend - drafting all of society into a plan to find them dates. Ingenious!
A bit desperate perhaps, but still... genius!
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We've already seen how this ends up:
http://i.imgur.com/q0ycr.png
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The best way to eliminate terrorists was actually invented by Yasser Arafat and some of his advisors, who themselves had invented Black September, the terrorist group that murdered Israeli athletes at the 72 Olympics in Munich:
http://m.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2001/12/hoffman.htm
When they weren't needed any more...they married them off. Told them to go into deep cover in Jordan, found pretty Palestinian girls to marry the "heroes", have kids, be "sleeper agents"...and never gave them a mission. Interviewed years later, few were willing to accept one any more.
Most men are intimidated by smart women, and so most women who are smart try to conceal it.
This doesn't apply to you because you say you're gay (and I assume other women wouldn't be intimidated by smart women), but those other women you're talking about are doing it wrong. You don't hide who you are, especially not your virtues, such as intelligence, in order to make a relationship last for longer. That only makes it harder to break up when you find out your partner has that inferiority complex. What intelligent woman wants to be in a relationship with a guy who needs to feel superior to her?
When I meet a new girl, I tend to go out of my way to put all my nerdiness out there. More often than not (much more often than not), there's no second date. I consider that a benefit. I'm not going to change who I am to fit a woman's model of what I should be like, so if she doesn't want to date a nerd, I don't want to date her. I don't want to suffer through a painful breakup later when she finally figures out who I really am and the personality I was hiding. Those relationships that did last were significantly more meaningful as a result, and I retained a friendship with a few exes because I truly enjoyed their company and personality. "We should still be friends" isn't an insult to me, and if I had I enjoyed their company while we were dating, I'm glad to take them up on that offer when they make it seriously.
The article is full of prejudice, misinformation and bullshit. First of all, the hackers causing real damage aren't your stereotypical basement dwellers: most of them are either part of a criminal organisation or a state agency. The young kiddies who do it for the lulz, as a challenge or to support an ideology are only the visible tip of a huge iceberg, as they are the ones who are either too careless to cover their trails or directly announce their deeds. Most of the time they cause little harm, and sometimes can even be valuable when pointing out vulnerabilities which could have lead to the loss of sensitive data in the hands of a more mischievous hacker. If you want to stop them from growing up to be blackhats, the most important thing would be legislation that doesn't send them to jail for pointing out that a door is open. If you don't want them to become outcasts, don't cast them out. Provide them with ways to use their skills within the boundaries of the law. Sending a shoplifting kid to jail is a sure way to turn him into a robber, and the iron fist approach will not work any better on adolescent hackers.