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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. stupid adults by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    • Is your child spending all of their time online?
      PORN.
    • Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?
      NERD.
    • Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?
      soooo much PORN.
    • Do they get an income from their online activities, do you know why and how?
      PORN.
    • Are they resistant when asked what they do online?
      PORN.
    • Do they use the full data allowance on the home broadband?
      PORN.
    • Have they become more socially isolated?
      PORN.

    NEXT!

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  3. 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?

  4. 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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  5. Re:OMG no!!! by Areyoukiddingme · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If only there was a way to mix football NASCAR and guns, then we'd be 100% sure.

    Mad Max?