You can’t just hire the teens to work for a company instead of against it.
Can teen hackers be stopped? I spoke to
, a cybersecurity researcher who was celebrated for ending the particularly destructive WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017. Shortly afterward, however, he was arrested by the FBI for hackingperformed years ago as a teen. The judge ultimately decided that he had “turned the corner” and gave him a sentence of time served plus a year of supervised release. Our conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.
I definitely understand how people of that age can fall into this kind of stuff. I wasn’t really surprised by anything they were doing, but it’s typical for teens to just get in with the wrong people and end up doing all kinds of crazy stuff.What do you think attracts certain teen coders to hacking? What is the allure of it when you’re that age?Why do you think teen hacking is a recurring issue?There’s not really much structure if you are interested in computers below a certain age.
I don’t know because there’s not really much of an outlet for it yet. Obviously, they can’t really legally work, so it’s a case of there just really isn’t much you can do at that age. There’s coding programs and that kind of stuff, but it’s all very theoretical and not as fun. I know I got very bored in IT classes. Even in the high-end IT classes, I found myself very, very bored.
The UK is known for going particularly light on underage hackers, whereas the U.S. can be a lot more ruthless. The prefrontal cortex doesn’t fully develop until early twenties. They’re really not so good with seeing consequences. Or not necessarily for seeing them, but caring. In a lot of cases, they do know what they’re doing is wrong and they do know that there’s consequences. They just, at that age, don’t particularly care.
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