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UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs (oomlout.co.uk)

Posted by Soulskill on from the god-help-them-if-they-open-a-command-line-interface dept.

Blacklaw writes: The UK's National Crime Agency, formerly known as the Serious and Organized Crime Agency, has published a list of warning signs that supposedly indicate a child may be heading toward a life of cyber-crime. The list includes late nights and showing any kind of interest at all in programming, even as the UK government pushes coding into the national education curriculum.

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  1. Time, once again, to post... by wiredog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

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  2. other very real warning signs by nimbius · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Does your restless child dress in parachute pants and mumble about "the gibson" as he glides past on his skateboard
    2. Has your child been exposed to, or attempted COBOL or worse, obfuscated C?
    3. Have you noticed a startling uptick in mid-nineties electronic music? does your child own more than 3 trenchcoats and a virtually endless supply of wrap-around ray-ban sunglasses?
    4. and finally, the worst sign, does your child publically question the need for an asinine laundry list of reasons to convict a minor of thoughtcrime?

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  3. OMG no!!! by JustNiz · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?

    Oh no! my son might be A PROGRAMMER!!!!

  4. Re:I love that Independant learning is a problem by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    And assembly language could indicate a tendency toward machosism.

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