Let me comment before finishing the article: this is a software’s lack of security problem, not a young teenager’s problem.
The fact they were breached, that’s nothing new. Same goes for everyone’s SSN under the sun, who cares?! The fact that a young person is owning up to it now, they have to punish and make such a big example out of him, it distracts from the failure of big tech…
This is hardly a new phenomenon at all. I used to be a teen hacker myself. Many security experts and ethical hackers start out as skript kiddies playing around with Kali Linux.
If anything, it’s easier to make money as a teen hacker nowadays than it was back in my day thanks to crypto. Used to mostly be for prestige and for that sense of testing yourself, though people still definitely got paid, perhaps not at the same scale.
I disagree. It’s very difficult to make money like that. A bit easier is bug bounties, but a real fixed income job is much more easy. Another, smaller problem is limited payment options with crypto. It means you’d have launder it into real money.
Just to clarify, I meant it’s easier to make money as a teen hacker nowadays than it was back in my day thanks to crypto. I edited my original comment to clarify that
oh, i see. thx for the clarification
Nope, super easy. Especially when you’re a patsy. It’s really easy until you get caught like your partners planned from the start.
yeah, i assumed a scheme where one doesn’t get thrown under the bus 😄
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For blackmailing teachers and children? Should we give the people who scam old people out of their retirement money jobs too? What crimes do we punish and which do we reward? Do we give a guy who assaults women a job teaching self defense?
Whats the point of laws? I am sure the teachers who are barely paid dont feel ok with having their personal info held hostage.
Why? The pros know how to breach systems. Today is the lazy man’s game. This kid just played with fire and got burned. Nothing more.
this isn’t the 70s/80s. that type of recruitment hans’t be necessary for a long time.
