In the light of crisis SNSs sometimes have to deal with, I would like to refer to the CNN article of 18th March about hacking kids. Apparently more than a quarter of British children have tried hacking. Most of the time the children broke into their friends’ personal accounts on SNSs like Facebook or their e-mail accounts. Despite the fact that the majority of the kids was convinced that hacking is wrong, or even illegal, half of them did it just for fun. Stuart Hyde, president of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, points out that the results of the survey have to be taken seriously, since they show that “hacking into personal online accounts can be child’s play if users do not protect their passwords.” Danger sometimes comes from an unexpected angle…
Posted by: Elisabeth Minnaert
Source:http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/18/england.kids.hacking/index.html?iref=allsearch
