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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: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @10:06AM (4 children)
What the article seems to refer to is "script kids" which weren't a thing in the past because computers were "boring" and didn't have much presence in public life except for specialized shops or large organizations. Secondly it required interest and brains to even get started.
Which is very different from "hackers" that explores and learn systems, without.. messing them up or their users. The misuse of the hacker word stems from moronic media. Which now is getting steam rolled by digital bits, which does them right.
What schools should do is to teach conduct not "don't do drugs", "don't have sex", "don't test cool script" etc. Of course if the counterpart behaves like an asshole mafia, well there's fitting conduct for that. If the school mission is to make obedient and intelligent but unwise persons to use as wage drones. Then they have effective undermined themselves.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday April 24 2017, @10:20AM (3 children)
Would we accept cars that got fouled up at road signs as well as we accept computers that get fouled up at scripts?
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Soylentbob on Monday April 24 2017, @11:46AM (2 children)
Would we accept cars that got fouled up at road signs
But of course! The autonomous car industry banks on it! Or do you think when the car computers learn to read road signs, suddenly all software will be bug-free? ;-)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @01:50PM (1 child)
I actually think you are on to something. Stuff like painting roads in UV-paint, faked pedestrian through illuminated dust or direct beam, QR codes outdoors, resonance lines, etc
Regardless I have no confidence at all in corporations designing computers involved in vehicle security. They just don't have the culture or procedures for sufficient safety. On top of this they will be pressured by the alphabet soup to enable them to hurt their users, and people in physical proximity.
The first car to autonomously deliver chemical components that really rapidly decompose will perhaps also transmit a clue to the public by reality that some things just isn't a good idea.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Soylentbob on Monday April 24 2017, @01:59PM
I actually think you are on to something.
May be... [techcrunch.com] :-)