Talented youngsters

[BrilloPad]

I have done a few bits and pieces. But only as part of NVDA - I never took any money off anyone.

[BrilloPad]

I thought they were all snowflakes whining on insta about how their sex change operations had gone wrong?

[Scruff]

Great training for a career in the City.

Great training to be a Parliamentariarn

[ladymuck]

Legal is a moveable feast...

[Old Greg]

Great training for a career in the City.

[xoggoth]

Got an interesting email from Neighbourhood Watch, extract below:

Some of the most serious cybercrimes are either committed or aided by children as young as 12. Typically, they’re super-talented at IT and often spend many hours on their computer in their bedroom. They may have been attracted via gaming, coding or hacking forums, also populated by cybercriminals. Their parents are usually unaware … just happy that they’re learning, keeping themselves occupied and not getting into mischief on the street.

Several of the people jailed for the hack on telecoms business TalkTalk were teenagers at the time of the attack in October 2015. A hacker for hire who crossed the line into cybercrime at just 13, was sentenced for breaking into global institutions … from his bedroom. It’s thought that as many as one in four UK teenagers have tried some form of internet hacking.

Sounds good for the future, if we can get them into doing something more useful, and legal.

PS Any of you lot been into cybercrime?