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posted by n1 on Monday April 24 2017, @09:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the gateway-drug-er-tools dept.

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: 2) by Soylentbob on Monday April 24 2017, @11:46AM (2 children)

    by Soylentbob (6519) on Monday April 24 2017, @11:46AM (#498778)

    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? ;-)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Monday April 24 2017, @01:50PM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 24 2017, @01:50PM (#498835) Journal

    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.