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I was reading the BBC news website, and I came across this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7690126.stm

this bit stood out most to me:

Many teenagers got into low level crime by looking for exploits and cracks for their favourite computer games.

what are your thoughts on this?

I need to steal identities so I can afford the games that I hack, tbh.

Tural wrote:I need to steal identities so I can afford the games that I hack, tbh.

that must be it! YOU ARE NOT TURAL!

I don't even know what to say about the video.

Fear mongering is all the reporter is doing here. SQL injections, serious business. Pro hacker, right there. He's just some faggy kid who likes to put his name on WoW sites because that's all he's capable of. The reporter acts like the kid is the devil incarnate and deserves to be in prison for the rest of his life. The kid isn't going to go on to become the next big hacker, he's going to continue being stupid for a while and then move on. He's far too dumb to amount to any serious threat. The reporter is basically comparing a 12 year old stealing a candy bar in a gas station to a ring of criminals stealing cars, removing the VINs, shipping the cars across borders, and selling them. The people stealing identities are not these kids who buy some shit on Amazon with a credit card number that's already been canceled, and his assertion that the guy he's profiling has a "crew" is just laughable. It is reports like this that lead to vast misconceptions about the nature of misuses of information online. To sum it up I'll refer back to my original statement, simple fear mongering, and it's quite dumb. He's someone clearly far out of touch with the people he's profiling, and he's appealing to the people just like him, people who don't know any better.

Tural wrote:The reporter is basically comparing a 12 year old stealing a candy bar in a gas station to a ring of criminals stealing cars, removing the VINs, shipping the cars across borders, and selling them.

This about sums it up in my mind.

It seems like the UK just doesn't trust themselves at all what with the cameras everywhere and the dangers posed by trekkies. The comment section is priceless.

Then again America is just as bad what with Fox's depiction of "Hackers on Steroids."

It's best to just not acknowledge the existence of Fox News.

The Term "Kiddy Hacker" comes to brain while reading this "news".

INSANEdrive wrote:The Term "Kiddy Hacker" comes to brain while reading this "news".

is this at me?

bcnipod wrote:

INSANEdrive wrote:The Term "Kiddy Hacker" comes to brain while reading this "news".

is this at me?

No.

Rephrase: While reading this "news", the term "Kiddy Hacker" came to brain.

Edit:

JunkfoodMan wrote: Script Kiddy?

Ya.

Both stories are outrageous. Looking back at history, however, there has always been a tendency to blame the 'youth of today'. I found the story about the Star Trek weapon funny.

INSANEdrive wrote:

bcnipod wrote:

INSANEdrive wrote:The Term "Kiddy Hacker" comes to brain while reading this "news".

is this at me?

No.

Rephrase: While reading this "news", the term "Kiddy Hacker" came to brain.

Script Kiddy?

Philly wrote:Both stories are outrageous. Looking back at history, however, there has always been a tendency to blame the 'youth of today'. I found the story about the Star Trek weapon funny.

Those kids and their drugs/sex/rock/movies/tv/video games.

It's always the kids and never the parents

Mr. Tural, I have stolen your sig rotator. Pay £1,000,000 or you'll never see it again. Report my crew and we rek ur shit up son!.

o geez

I'm going to hack the world, and then delete the Internet.

Well, I did not mean for the thread to turn out like this, but anyway, I wanted to know your opinions on the statement I quoted in the original post...

As stated before, it's pure and utter fearmongering bullshit. Every time someone reports on this kind of shit about "Hackers" and "Whois" and "Routers" and "CyberbulliesIRCcreditcardInformationWoWgoldAIMMySpaceTeenchildrenFacebookGroupsYourKidsHaveAccessToIt" kind of shit, interest in these Anti-Virus programs all increase because you just HAD to have that paperback off of Amazon and your close relatives use online banking and now your whole fiscal world is at stake if you input any information over the internet. People that are that afraid of the internet should just disconnect that little blue wire off the back of their computers, or punt that wireless router into the neighbors yard.

Cuda wrote:As stated before, it's pure and utter fearmongering ***. Every time someone reports on this kind of **** about "Hackers" and "Whois" and "Routers" and "CyberbulliesIRCcreditcardInformationWoWgoldAIMMySpaceTeenchildrenFacebookGroupsYourKidsHaveAccessToIt" kind of ****, interest in these Anti-Virus programs all increase because you just HAD to have that paperback off of Amazon and your close relatives use online banking and now your whole fiscal world is at stake if you input any information over the internet. People that are that afraid of the internet should just disconnect that little blue wire off the back of their computers, or punt that wireless router into the neighbors yard.

Youtube that for me. I would like to see that.

I'm an mlg pro and ima fry your router if you dont give me account info