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

Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by criley2 on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:54PM (#10454754)

When you combine the potential lack of punishment for juveniles with the biological reality that prefrontal cortex development in adult humans doesn't really complete until the mid twenties, you get teenagers who don't think bad outcomes are possible, and whose brain is less capable of long term risk assessment.

I would think that the 50+ crowd would be far more hampered by their risk assessment of the negative outcomes of these behaviors than by their skillsets alone.

A teen is in it for the lulz, or the glory, or whatever, but a greybeard could lose his retirement, leave his spouse high and dry, lose his ability to see and support his family...

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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by vegabook on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:16PM (#10454874)

So they're less risk averse even if they're less competent. Probably right. Though I think there's also something intellectually liberating about having no risk constraints, which might allow for attack vectors that are unconventional.

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Re:TalkTalk cyber-attack: boy, 15, arrested in Northern Ireland by niels_olson on Monday October 26, 2015 @07:08PM (#10455144)

What you should be really afraid of is 50 year olds without risk aversion. Like the decision-makers at banks, politicians who will never personally go to war or the welfare line, etc.

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