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UK NCA: Hacking Ensnaring Teenagers into Crime

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

User a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- writes:

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 bzipitidoo on Monday April 24 2017, @01:36PM (2 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Monday April 24 2017, @01:36PM (#498826) Journal

    This is ridiculous on another level. It's amazing how much the masses can fear and hate those who are smarter and/or more knowledgeable. We now have a government with a narcissist at the head that just might drop a nuke or two, lying that it's about defense against some contrived threat when it's really for the publicity. Plus they would probably get a thrill out of pushing the envelope to such extremes. One nuclear bomb detonation won't destroy civilization, unless it provokes nuclear retaliation, so that we get Mutually Assured Destruction. And people are more afraid of hackers than of an inept, incompetent, stupid, and possibly even mentally crazy government with the ability to drop a nuclear bomb or two.

    Maybe our best hope is that the designers of the nuclear weapons controls left backdoors that can only disable the systems, can't be used to do a launch or detonation. Be a shame if some insane government tries to launch the nukes, and no hackers can stop it because they've all been locked up.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @02:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @02:37PM (#498860)

    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.

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 24 2017, @03:09PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Monday April 24 2017, @03:09PM (#498877) Journal

    Maybe our best hope is that the designers of the nuclear weapons controls left backdoors that can only disable the systems, can't be used to do a launch or detonation.

    They did the opposite. :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_%28nuclear_war%29 [wikipedia.org]