My son is a hacker?!
I was doing my son’s laundry and after drying it all up and folded them neatly, I went up to his room. I didn’t know he was there. I went in and to my surprise, the command console is open, the Internet is active and I saw the commands of telnet. He is hacking his way into an open port of some network outside of our own. How did I know? That’s what I did at work before I got into the creative industry. It’s not new because this information is free on the Internet. Anyone can get answers. Weird thing is, my son knew that he was doing something illegal. He shut the computer down when he saw me looking at it. it was too late though. Why? Because I saw everything already. What I saw was enough to asses that he was tampering with someone else’s network.
I sat down, talked to him and said, "Hey, what you are doing can get both of us in jail." IP address can be traced and there are a lot of things that can happen that could lead the feds directly at out doorstep. I gave him an ultimatum. I told him to e-mail the network administrator or simply leave a note saying that there is a breach in their security and apologize for his conduct and they have to work on the security breach as soon as possible.
This suddenly made my son a white hat hacker. I told him never to do this again because this type of hacking is destructive. I told him to continue studying though. Who knows? One day I may have the next CIA agent.
