TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland

Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by SixSigma on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:47PM (#10454718)

If it was my job to penetrate remote systems, you can bet that I wouldn't still be using the same stack and MO I was 30 years ago, in the just the same way that I'm not using an Amiga.

The OP is ridiculous that it cannot be imagined that someone needs to be a child to break into systems.

I'm at University and I run rings around my 20 something cohort.

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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by vegabook on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:20PM (#10454895)

The point is not that one needs to be a teenager ("child") to break into systems. None of what I have said is incompatible with the assertion that older coders have more skills, a point with which I agree. However it is not a contradiction to say that innovation does not require huge experience, and indeed is sometimes hampered by it.

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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by SixSigma on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:59PM (#10455100)

I still stand by my original assertion :

> because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against

this is utterly ridiculous

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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by vegabook on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:31PM (#10466337)

I stand by my original assertion:

> this is utterly ridiculous

A vacant comment devoid of insight, by a self-satisfied person oblivious to their predisposition to complacency.

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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by SixSigma on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:30PM (#10467169)

our HN colleagues think otherwise

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