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M. E. Kabay plops on his "dad" hat and explains why criminal hacking is bad for kids. All the basics of security are covered simplisticly enough for the average 14 year old to understand.

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HNN's editor Weld Pond has written an article for ZDNet about why the world is a better place because of reverse engineers. We should be praising and enabling them, not trying to criminalize their laudible activities.

ZDNet

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It must be commentary day here at HNN. Lew Koch looks at the way the Feds are fighting teen hackers. Are these kids the real danger? Why do we spend so much time and money trying to lock up 15 year olds?

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John Taschek discusses the buggy code, full disclosure, and script kiddie triumverate. We would all like a world where script kiddies could do no harm but that seems like a fantasy right now. How do we get there? You hold a vulnerability summit of course. Do you think this will do any good? Send your thoughts to contact@hackernews.com.

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