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UK's Top Police Warn That Modding Games May Turn Kids into Hackers (vice.com)
Joseph Cox, writing for Motherboard: Last week at EGX, the UK's biggest games event, attendees got a chance to play upcoming blockbusters like Battlefield 1, FIFA 17, and Gears of War 4. But budding gamers may also have spotted a slightly more unusual sight: a booth run by the National Crime Agency (NCA), the UK's leading law enforcement agency. Over the last few years, the NCA has attempted to reach out to technologically savvy young people in different ways. EGX was the first time it's pitched up to a gaming convention; the NCA said it wanted to educate young people with an interest in computers and suggested that those who mod online games in order to cheat may eventually progress to using low level cybercrime services like DDoS-for-hire and could use steering in the right direction. "The games industry can help us reach young people and educate them on lawful use of cyber skills," Richard Jones, head of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit's 'Prevent' team, told Motherboard in an email. "Through attendance at EGX and various other activities, we are seeking to promote ethical hacking or penetration testing, as well as other lawful uses of an interest in computers to young people," Jones said.
Hacking, the new gateway drug...
This may kinda, possibly, lead to kids who might at some point think of being a script kiddie. We have also found a correlation between these modders and drinking Mountain Dew. We're drawing up new legislation as we speak.
had bank accounts before they become bank robbers. Clearly we should make possession of a bank account an indicator of likelihood to rob banks.
Also, 95% of killers know how to drive, and 95% of people committing white collar crime went to college.
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