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Sky News reports:
Hacking is ensnaring teenagers who would otherwise be unlikely to be involved in traditional crime, says a National Crime Agency [UK] report.
It aims to understand how teenagers become hackers and is based on interviews with eight young people cautioned or sentenced for hacking offences.
The average age of cybercrime suspects was 17 years old and that the availability of low-level hacking tools "encourages criminal behaviour", it said.
[...] The NCA report suggested that targeted interventions towards teenagers at the early stages of hacking can steer them away from criminal hacking.
"Just say no" to hacking tools.
Additional reporting: BBC
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @02:37PM
I hope there is MAD. How else are humans going to learn that they've evolved with a very dangerous trait (or two depending on how you look at it)? Sociopaths won't be bred out probably for tens of millions of years, but if MAD happened, perhaps humans could learn that when a sociopath gets their "member of the pack" instinct revving, it's a red flag.