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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. Sensationalist summary by gregfortune · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you actually pull up the article, it has a list of warning signs and then adds:

    Many of these are just normal teenage behaviours and don't necessarily suggest a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime. But if a young person is showing several of these signs, try and have a conversation with them about their online activities.

    We don't really think there's harm in having a conversation with our kids, do we?