Great post! Upvoted! Brilliant kids in every corner of the earth making their mark with the knowledge and power they hold. Future leaders and innovators if they don't get trapped into their legal systems.

Neighborhood friends and I started programming in the 80s on Commodore and Atari computers. We're lucky there wasn't such thing as Information System Criminal laws at the time. We used to war dial as kids to find every phone number in town with a computer modem on the other end.

Through war dialing, we stumbled upon a computer system at Old Dominion University where someone was typing code. Hit back space a few times and typed hello! The party responded with whose this? How did you get here? Explained and they said ok.... Cool... You can watch me code, but please don't change anything... Ended up making a friendship through our minor hacking activities :-D Also got into some Naval and Retail systems, but never did any damage.

There were not any laws governing illegal computer access at the time and we never got into any trouble or did any harm. Now kids can get ensnared in the legal system for a long time with such minor offenses.