hey that was fast!,
Of course there is an alternative. I was just joking, but actually thinking of it... it could work! It depends how naive your son is, the more he is the easier to montage the show.
If he doesn't have the slightest idea about trojans and rats, why don't you get a few well-known ones, and show to him what someone can do in his machine? (without destroying anything)
The more impressionable he is, the more "aware" he will be of the potential threats he had been ignoring.
Since news articles can be "felt" like easily hyped, why don't you show him technical papers (this gives more credibility in my opinion) and researches about real cases and real methods. A interesting case can be found in GRC.com, where Gibson explaines with enough detailes how he was DDoS and how he tracked the attacker back.
To be make him more security conscious and with the real shit, get him the book series "Stealing the network", those stories are well written by real hackers in very, very possible scenarios with real methologies and accesible and well-known tools.
Simple:
1) by saying that you have facts
2) by reminding him you are an expert in computers and programming
3) by showing to him a sample of what a "good" trojan can do in his laptop. (good: AV stealthy, rootkit, proxy http/socks, bot, keylogger, distributed computing capabilities, rat, rat with gui, shell, at least)
4) fry his computer, steal all his logins.
5) When you see him crying telling him, "I told you so".
"Scientists say there is a 1-in-45,000 chance that it could hit in 2036."
Does that mean that is more probable to be hit by an asteroid that to win the lottery?... o_O
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hey that was fast!, Of course there is an alternative. I was just joking, but actually thinking of it... it could work! It depends how naive your son is, the more he is the easier to montage the show. If he doesn't have the slightest idea about trojans and rats, why don't you get a few well-known ones, and show to him what someone can do in his machine? (without destroying anything) The more impressionable he is, the more "aware" he will be of the potential threats he had been ignoring. Since news articles can be "felt" like easily hyped, why don't you show him technical papers (this gives more credibility in my opinion) and researches about real cases and real methods. A interesting case can be found in GRC.com, where Gibson explaines with enough detailes how he was DDoS and how he tracked the attacker back. To be make him more security conscious and with the real shit, get him the book series "Stealing the network", those stories are well written by real hackers in very, very possible scenarios with real methologies and accesible and well-known tools.
Simple: 1) by saying that you have facts 2) by reminding him you are an expert in computers and programming 3) by showing to him a sample of what a "good" trojan can do in his laptop. (good: AV stealthy, rootkit, proxy http/socks, bot, keylogger, distributed computing capabilities, rat, rat with gui, shell, at least) 4) fry his computer, steal all his logins. 5) When you see him crying telling him, "I told you so".
"Scientists say there is a 1-in-45,000 chance that it could hit in 2036." Does that mean that is more probable to be hit by an asteroid that to win the lottery?... o_O
So they found an illegal alien?