USA Teaching 8-Year-Olds How to Be Hackers

[aoneone]

Keep up the bad work USA. Do not forget to NOT pay them under Union laws too. Idiots... ^^

 

[bobusboy]

"Have things gotten so bad online security-wise that the government is now recruiting adolescents?"

Since when is an 8 year old an adolescent?!?

 

[lotri]

It would've been nice if they did this back in the 90s.

 

[christop]

Damn a 16 year old hacker guru. F- It I guess I should just say the hell with an I.T job when Toddlers are killing it...

 

[spookie]

if only I lived in the US...still being young enough I definitely would have gone!

 

[TheWhiteRose000]

Just another way for the US to farm people, to weed out the weak and make slaves of the strong.

 

[michalmierzwa]

[citation][nom]gerchokas[/nom]Outrageous. Teaching kids how to fight the criminals of the future? Why not instructing them on ethics and moral values, and then NOT having to fight such a thing?[/citation]

Indoctrination from a very young age, control and subdue, The New World Order!

 

[Guest]

This article looks like it was written for a daily sensation rag, not Toms.

 

[SoiledBottom]

Once the conference ends look for sites like Dora the Exploer, Blues Clues and Sasame street on line to start being hacked

 

[extremepcs]

Awesome. I have 2 boys 8 and 14 who love computers. I wish I could afford to take both of them!

 

[shanky887614]

lol, this is going to be funny

more script kiddies,

 

[wild9]

It will also serve as a recruiting farm for U.S. federal agents looking for the next-generation of "digital crime fighters."

They're kids. Their minds haven't even fully developed yet.

"We want to expose kids at an earlier age to the wonders of taking things apart and making them do things that they weren't intended to do," added Defcon founder Jeff Moss.

Yep, and I'm sure they're doing just that kind of thing overseas, when they separate girls from boys in the classroom, teach them to know their place..and how to make bombs using everyday items. Oh but wait that's sick isn't it.

 

[wild9]

5 spam messages and I've only just been browsing for a few seconds. Wish some trusted users could have limited moderator status, and zap these stupid spammers in their tracks.

 

[PudgyChicken]

Just booked my ticket. Literally. While it sucks to be in Vegas as a minor, it's relatively easy to get somebody who's over 21 to go there with you ;D

 

[computertech82]

It does have to be done. China has been training hackers for YEARS now. We need a opposite force to STOP them from hacking us......duh.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]gerchokas[/nom]I get your point, but as Trialsking says, It's not what you learn at school, nor a loose word that your parents may have said some time. Ethics and morals are a deep part of the culture, something you "develop" when you grow up."Would you steal something from a shop if there was noobody there, and you were sure that nobody would notice?"Asking yourself that kind of question maturely, is how i believe you realize if you've learned about ethics..[/citation]
Depending on what it was and how much I wanted it, yea. I have shop lifted before, has been like 15 years since I did it last though. It all depends on the place, the price, the item and how daring I feel but yea I would do it.

 

[blackstone90]

Does anybody know if there's anything like this in the UK?

 

[captaincharisma]

well, at least it looks like the US is starting to teach there kids something in school's again. instead of creating an army of sarah palin and Michelle Bachman's

 

[strapmonkey]

Super. Throw in a nifty ceremonial knife, elements of pagan ritual and I'm sold. Oh, no, wait. That was the Hitler Youth. This is something TOTALLY different.

Yawohl, herr obergrupenfuhrer!

 

[zak876]

being an ethical "white hat " hacker is kool.......but being a "dark-hat-super-evil" hacker is F^&*Kin Awesome !!!! >🙂