How kids with little code skill do big, damaging hacks
In episode 2, hear original testimony from a child hacker – a ‘script kiddie’ or ‘skiddie:’ How and why he attacked his school, stealing and exposing private information.
It started with innocent pranks. Now he faces life in prison
A 14-year-old known as Omnipotent started one of the world’s most popular hacking forums, RaidForums. It began with innocent pranks on users of streaming service Twitch, but soon led to life-threatening hoaxes and selling stolen data.
How Dutch police put prevention first with young hackers
Hacking’s adrenaline rush can be addictive. If authorities intervene when they’re young, can black-hat (illegal) hackers gain a moral compass and learn to use their skills for good?
Criminals in children’s rooms? How kids become hackers
Episode 1 explores how organized crime groups target children and groom them into cybercrime. We also follow the journey of a young hacker’s mother who now helps police address cybercrime by children.
In the first of Tomorrow Unlocked’s hacker: HUNTER Next Level series, Gold Rush, we hear from three of the hackers and their families, the prosecutor and the defense.
The metaverse blend – hyper-enhancing our hybrid future
Metaverses are immersive virtual worlds accessed through gaming consoles, VR headsets and computers. In them, you can do almost anything you’d do in the real world, like play sport and express yourself through fashion. Interestingly, the metaverse itself is already changing what these activities will likely mean to us in future.
Gaming companies have long wanted their games to appeal to women. Early successes like Pac-Man showed the size of the untapped market, while ironically, Ms. Pac-Man missed the mark. How should games companies work to better reach wider audiences?
Technology has long triggered change in the home – from telephones, to television, and now telepresence, with mass data flowing through high-speed broadband, streaming and voice assistants. And it’s never been easy for parents to know how to keep children safe.
In the future, will we each have a digital bio-twin beside us, ready to whisper in our ear when our biometric data shows we’re at risk? Scientists say genes affect our lifespan by just 10 to 25 percent, making preventing illness key to extending our lives. Today, tech that quantifies our biophysical performance abounds, and more is on the way. But how should we protect our precious and private health information, while taking advantage of these powerful, possibly life-extending tools? And what can be done about the missing data of women, people of color and others historically ignored by medical research?
When researchers created a ‘third thumb’ prosthesis and taught people how to use it, they found changes in the brain. As we see advanced convergence of embedded body tech into non-medical uses, we must explore the potential for unintended consequences alongside benefits like productivity and convenience. Today, systems like passports and medical ethics struggle to accept people augmented for non-medical reasons. Will we need a bill of cyborg rights?