What grown-ups should know about their kids hacking

I was browsing around and happened to find this gem of an article titled “Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?” on the website Adequacy - News for grown-ups.

Besides ranting about how he is an enlightened, modern role model of a parent, he talks about how to identify possible hacking activities.

• He claims that Flash is a hacker tool.
• And that AMD chips are inferior, security disabled copies of American chips made by third world countries using child labour in sweatshops.
• And that "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly and "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S. Raymond are hacker manuals.
• And that spending more than 30 minutes on a computer means that the kid is DOSing others by accessing the command prompt of other computers.
• And that Quake is an online meeting place for hackers.
• And that BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system made by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. And that the only way to remove Lunix is by replacing the hard disk because it cannot be removed without destroying part of your hard disk surface.
• And that hackers tend to dress in bright, day-glo colors.

And a lot more ...

With this kind of profiling the law enforcement authorities won’t have a problem finding hackers. All I could do was ROTFLMAO! But on a serious note, it is not hard to find people with similar views who would base their conclusions on such understandings.

It does look like a parody site as the rest of the articles show the same trends. But it did remind me of the time when people used to say that #kotari was a channel in mIRC which stood for Maldives Internet Relay Chat.

Ignorance... is bliss.