Pint-sized hackers develop skills at convention
Hackers start young and their parents couldn't be prouder about their children following in their footsteps.
Defcon, an annual hacker convention, held its first-ever program for children, aged 8 to 16, who listened to presentations about hacking, solving puzzles and laws while sitting at long conference tables, with some feet barely touching the ground.
The earlier generation of hackers has grown up and now has children of their own to bring up in the family tradition. So they brought the youngsters to Defcon Kids Saturday and Sunday for a bit of education. "A lot of us who have been coming to Defcon over the last almost two decades are getting ... um ... more mature, we'll just put it that way," said Chris Hoff, founder of HacKid who helped organize the children's program at Defcon. "And a lot of us have kids of our own."
