Hacker convention DEFCON has attracted some of the world’s best computer hackers, security experts, cyber-criminals and all around computer geeks since 1993 and now the convention, which is populated mostly with adults, will witness DEFCON kids for computer enthusiasts aged eight to sixteen years old.
During DEFCON Kids members will learn some basic skills, such as how to prevent spying over wireless networks, how to open master locks and how to find exposed code on Google, they’ll even learn how to break codes.
Promising students are expected to be offered jobs, just consider the event to be a U.S. government fueled recruiting assignment before hackers reach their prime.
Government officials believe that hiring workers at a very young age will keep them away from trouble-making cyber activities by giving them cash to perform “white-hat” jobs for the government.
Is it still called child labor if a super genius eight-year-old is sitting in a bunker somewhere cracking code for uncle Sam?
[via Ubergizmo ]
