Children "met prominent hackers, Homeland Security officials and NSA security experts. They also listened to talks on the history of hacking and lectures on cryptography. Some of the convention's hotly contested competitions were geared toward children ... One contest covered lock-picking techniques to be used in the event they forget their locker combination. The kids were encouraged to find security vulnerabilities in popular technologies, from video games to computer hardware," so says reports from attendees of the 2011 DefCon, a protocol based hacking network conference.
2011 DefCon Includes Children - Kids and hackers, oh my! DefCon adds kids track | ajc.com
2011 DefCon Includes Children - Kids and hackers, oh my! DefCon adds kids track | ajc.com