Jul 172012
Info Week reports that one of the secrets to stopping hackers is to get them girlfriends. Okay, so that isn’t the full article, which goes on to talk about how adolescent hackers ‘age out’ of the activities. Anti-social behavior by teens with computers may be one of the popular images but today is only a small slice of the pie when it comes to on-line crime. It has become big business internationally. But who are we to get in the way of the concept of girls-for-geeks?