Learn how some teen hackers end up criminals, some end up heroes, and one ended up a millionaire.
During the summer, many students and other young people need a job to augment that crucial time around the local swimming pool catching up with friends. In the past, restaurant work or odd jobs provided a little income and time out of the house away from parents. Recently an intriguing, if not controversial, teen employment possibility has popped up: hacking.
The word can mean many things, from finding bugs for companies to innovating new solutions to breaking into servers. Young people have made headlines on all ends of the spectrum. Here is a look at some recent incidents, suggested ethical guides, and tools to protect yourself from hacking.
Last month an Australian judge both praised and reprimanded a 17-year-old Australian who hacked into Apple’s secure systems twice, once when he was 13. Magistrate David White placed the youth on a $500 bond to be of good behavior for nine months, noting, "He is clearly someone who is a gifted individual when it comes to information technology, that being said, those who have this advantage of being gifted doesn't give them the right to abuse that gift.” The youth told the court he did the hacking in hopes he would get a job. It didn’t work.
Santiago Lopez, a 19-year-old in Argentina, had much better luck. He became the first person to surpass $1 million in rewards on HackerOne, a bug bo ..
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