I daresay that probably most of those "clever kids" found jobs in security. Exploring, testing, finding work arounds, etc. is the hallmark of a good IT security or pen tester.
Creative cloudy types still making it rain cash for Adobe
Larry Ellison sets the Catz among the pigeons: Safra officially sole Oracle CEO
Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...
Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report
Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play!
Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5
Microsoft enables phone calls from your Windows PC (as long as it's paired with an Android)
ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade
Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen
Ever wonder how hackers could possibly pwn power plants? Here are 54 Siemens bugs that could explain things
NPM swats path traversal bug that lets evil packages modify, steal files. That's bad for JavaScript crypto-wallets
Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn't blame US
Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference
Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?
CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform
Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war
Lynch was 'willing to lie' to High Court over Autonomy whistleblower, claims HPE
GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home
Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at
Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug?
How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble
How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled
Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold
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Rocket Lab ends year by cutting ribbon on first launchpad in the US
100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu
These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots
Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC
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Are you writing code for ambient computing? No? Don't even know? Ch-uh. Google's 'write once, run anywhere' Flutter is all over it
Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager
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Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart
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