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This is hardly a new phenomenon at all. I used to be a teen hacker myself. Many security experts and ethical hackers start out as skript kiddies playing around with Kali Linux.
If anything, it’s easier to make money as a teen hacker nowadays than it was back in my day thanks to crypto. Used to mostly be for prestige and for that sense of testing yourself, though people still definitely got paid, perhaps not at the same scale.
I disagree. It's very difficult to make money like that. A bit easier is bug bounties, but a real fixed income job is much more easy. Another, smaller problem is limited payment options with crypto. It means you'd have launder it into real money.
Nope, super easy. Especially when you're a patsy. It's really easy until you get caught like your partners planned from the start.
yeah, i assumed a scheme where one doesn't get thrown under the bus 😄
Just to clarify, I meant it's easier to make money as a teen hacker nowadays than it was back in my day thanks to crypto. I edited my original comment to clarify that
oh, i see. thx for the clarification