To expand a little on my first point, I kind of fell off the deep end in my teens and hung around gangs. I was still a geek and only trying to be cool, of course. But after that got to be too much, I resorted back to how I was as a kid....playing games and tinkering with computers. This was still the 90s, and even then, cyber criminals were people like Kevin Mitnick. Guys who were mostly doing it for fun or curiosity. It wasn't until a couple of years ago it seemed to change and I saw a documentary on identity and credit card theft. They had blurred out interviews with some of the perpetrators (at least low level perps) -- and it was like seeing a convergence of the worlds I grew up around. These guys didn't act or talk much different than the thugs I distanced myself from. They were both geeks and thugs.
So that's kind of what I mean. Everything involving computers eventually becomes accessible. There was a time when "home" computers were a joke idea.. until Woz and Jobs. A time when office automation was niche. A time when Linux was only for zit faced nerds in their basement. And now the same goes for crime.