He isn't kidding about the state of computer 'science' in the UK being atrocious. Up until sixth form college, it's pretty much 'how to use Microsoft Office th

He isn't kidding about the state of computer 'science' in the UK being atrocious. Up until sixth form college, it's pretty much 'how to use Microsoft Office the class', with programming being mostly non existent and even coding in HTML being rare in a lot of cases. So anyone who doesn't study IT past the age of 16 or have an interest in computers outside of school is likely going to be absolutely clueless in regards to how to use a computer. Once you're in sixth form college, it's then hardly any better, with the worst ones literally being 'how to use Microsoft Office, Access and Front Page edition'. So you could theoretically get away with not writing a single line of code until university, despite doing 'IT' as much as humanly possible. Add the lack of extra activities, and well... anyone who's done programming at all may as well skip GCSE and A level IT altogether, since it's got absolutely nothing of value to someone with even the simplest computer skills. Thank god you don't need a degree to get work as a developer in this country. Otherwise we'd have barely anyone interested in programming at all. He's also right about the internet of things being a security disaster... but hey, absolutely everyone with experience in this stuff knew that already. That said, he should probably get out of this blackhat stuff now rather than later, since it's very likely he'll be caught and end up facing a pretty long prison sentence at some point in time if he doesn't. Especially when you realise most people will see what he's doing here and think it's somehow as serious as breaking national security.