Today I stumbled upon this very interesting article where a concerned parent lists the signs to watch out for in your kids to guard against them turning into *gasp* hackers...
Here are a couple of gems from the article...
If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking.
There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today. A few titles to be on the lookout for are: ... "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly; "Geeks" by Jon Katz; "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling; ... and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond. If you find any of these hacking manuals in your child's possession, confiscate them immediately.
The way the article has been written, makes it is clear that it is meant to humor the person reading it. Then again, some of those who do not know the A,B,Cs... of computers might really fall for what has been written there. Read the full article to get a good laugh.
