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Sorry, your point may be valid but I don't see how it relates to my comment.

• jacquesm 9y ago
  The point is that any teenager can likely get into your house, burglarize you or murder you. You could go and live in a vault, but that would take the fun out of living and so as a society we have dealt with this by making this illegal and the chances of getting caught are large enough that people tend to not do those things. But if the chances of getting caught were near zero you might have to go and live in a vault.
  • libeclipse 9y ago
    That's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about how teenagers can build systems resilient against these attacks, not that they carry out the attacks themselves. (Although I conjecture that a significant proportion of these attacks are also carried out by teenagers.)
    • jacquesm 9y ago
      It goes both ways doesn't it? Whether teenagers can set up a system more resilient than your average systems administrator is something that I doubt anyway. Most teenagers could not hack their way out of a wet paper bag, but then there are some that totally blow your mind. Just like with older folks. Age does not have much to do with it.