Children Hacking Their Own Schools for 'fun', Watchdog Warns

Oh noes, the kids are smarter than the admins. Who could have predicted?

And none of the article examples mentions any kind of destruction or vandalism -- no deleted databases, no doxxing. Just curious kids having fun. They should get rewards for spotting security holes.

In other words, nothing has really changed since I was at school in the 1990s.

Unfortunately, adults in western nations are unusually susceptible to harm-blindness. This is the inability to differentiate between actual, tangible harm - and things that simply make adults grumpy or uneasy.

Historically, the two highest risk groups have been people in authority and people in the the news industry.

Contact with certain environments has been shown to sharply amplify the effects of harm-blindness. Most notably, contact with computer networks is particularly detrimental to vulnerable adults. Here they commonly lose all sense of proportion and exercising sound judgment is all but impossible.

For everyone's safety, high risk adults are strongly encouraged to avoid these spaces.