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Definitely games. This is what got me first hacking when I was a kid. Now as a parent, my oldest daughter (now 13), has been hacking on things for a few years
by bigtunacan 9y ago
Definitely games. This is what got me first hacking when I was a kid. Now as a parent, my oldest daughter (now 13), has been hacking on things for a few years now. First it was with Legos, then Minecraft modding, and most recently she's been trying to hack Movie Star Planet.
Believe me; I was quite shocked we she came to me out of the blue and was like, "Hey dad; can you come take a look at this? I'm having a problem with Charles and I thought you could help." I was thinking, "Ok, I don't know who Charles is, but I'll listen to her." Turns out she was referring to Charles the web debugging proxy (https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-proxying/ https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...) and that she was doing traffic analysis on her games to see if she could hack the data being passed around; not all that much different from Burp which I use for security auditing some of my apps at work.
- cr0sh 9y ago> and that she was doing traffic analysis on her games to see if she could hack the data being passed around I hope you had - either after or prior to that point - a heart to heart talk with your daughter about what she was doing. It's one thing to do that on a game or whatnot - but we all know where that can lead, whether accidentally or deliberately, and we have all heard stories of people (usually guys - but I bet that's going to change in the future) doing something "for the lulz" or "because they were curious" or "just to see what would happen" - and then quickly finding themselves on the dark end of a TLA agent.