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Re: [LUG] Stop young people coding NOW!!!

 

On 10 Dec 2015, at 14:46, Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:09:34PM +0000, Joseph Bennie wrote:
>>> It's a shame the media on the whole gives the companies being hacked an
>>> easy time. The likes of TalkTalk being hacked via SQL injection in 2015
>>> really need to be crucified and the directors banned from running a
>>> tech company ever again.
>> 
>> apparently that happened last night at a city dinner
> 
> A crucifixion? :-)
> 
> The thing is rather silly and misses the point quite a bit, but in
> fairness they do say "Taken in isolation they don't necessarily suggest
> a young person is at risk of getting involved in cyber crime".
> 
> What I find far more worrying that this is about a very small group of
> people: those who commit serious hacks and write malware. I believe the
> group doing other kinds of mischief, from trolling and bullying to
> off-the-shelf tools to spy on classmates, is far bigger.

> And such kids
> may (even) less easily be categorised based on sleeping patterns or
> social isolation.
> 

I wonder if thats an end goal of IoT? When we know what lights are on, We can mass 
data people's sleep patterns and minority report them for crimes yet to be committed 
:| 

> Martijn.
> 
> 
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