Hacking is a crime and what most hackers try to do is cover their tracks. However when you’re young and think you’re invincible, sometimes arrogance gets the better of you and you start leaving traces of your identity, or maybe you don’t even bother at all thinking that your actions are insignificant where you won’t even be investigated.
However over in the UK, local law enforcement is trying to give teen hackers, or at least the wannabes, a wake up call by visiting them in person. The idea is that with the cops showing up at their doorstep, teens will realize how real their consequences of their actions are and that jail time is very likely if they were to get caught.
These visits will be paid to teen hackers who have yet to commit any crime. For example in 2014, there was a hacking service called Lizard Stresser that was used to attack companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony. There were several teens who had signed up for the service which then prompted police to visit their homes in hopes that through this visit, it will scare them to the point where the sign up of the hacking service is the furthest they’ll ever go when it comes to cybercrimes.
Is this an effective strategy? We suppose we’ll just have to wait and see but what do you guys think? Will this scare tactic work, or do you think it’ll just prompt teens to find better ways of covering their tracks?