Article by George Norman

On 30 Oct 2008

This one is for all the teenage wannabe hackers that the media is going frenzy about. If you are young, dumb and full of com…petitive spirit, then I suggest you get into extreme sports, MMO games or any other activity that is on the right side of the law. By all means you should not use your programming skills to hack into other people’s computers and then go brag about it on some online forum.

According to Chris Boyd from FaceTime, company that specializes in providing online security solutions, the age of people related to hacking activities has dropped significantly. Children as young as 11 or 12 are freely sharing credit card details online and enquiring about hack tools, and all of this just for the fun of it. I guess that there is indeed a similarity between breaking the defenses of an enemy in an online game and breaking into someone’s PC (with one difference – the latter could land you some downtime in jail). Get that through your level 12 skull helmet, junior!


The thing that blows me away is the manner in which these kids get caught. Most of the times they are clueless as how to properly use a hack tool or phishing tool, but the one time they get it right, they go online and they brag about it. They make a video of their great hacking exploits and then post it on the internet for everyone to see. Haven’t we seen enough of this? People doing stupid and illegal things and then posting a video documentary of it on the net?

If you really have some hacking skills and insist on using them, then do so in a legit manner: start collaborating with a security company. Kevin Mitnick is truly one of the great hackers – he hacked into Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Siemens, Nokia and Motorola. His shadowy, hacker life inevitably landed him a 5 years jail sentence. Do you know what he does now? He has switched sides and is working as a security consultant – he is still hacking, still using that big brain of his to access corporate networks, but he does so legally (not to mention that he gets paid tons of money for it).



Tags: Hacking, FaceTime Security

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