I think Defcon Kids is awesome - hacking is a very fun skill which, like programming in general, interested kids should be encouraged to learn.
That said, don't be dishonest. The media should not be calling someone who discovered they could make time-based events in games happen by changing the time a "hacking prodigy"[1], and the website of a hacking con, whose others should know better, should not be saying it "allow[s] for exploit code to run on servers"[2]. It devalues the real thing :)
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I think Defcon Kids is awesome - hacking is a very fun skill which, like programming in general, interested kids should be encouraged to learn.
That said, don't be dishonest. The media should not be calling someone who discovered they could make time-based events in games happen by changing the time a "hacking prodigy"[1], and the website of a hacking con, whose others should know better, should not be saying it "allow[s] for exploit code to run on servers"[2]. It devalues the real thing :)
[1] http://www.darkreading.com/blog/231300589/tween-hacker-s-tim... [2] http://www.defconkids.org/?page_id=505