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My Linux System Administration instructor shared this with us, and I found it amusing.
Oh no! I have VirtualBox, Discord and Tor on my computer! I guess I better fly to the UK and turn myself in to the police so they can tell me what a filthy hacker I am!
Also I have no idea what "WiFi Pineapple" even is. My guess is that it's a packet sniffer like Wireshark.
Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police
Maybe stick to walking the beat instead of infosec advice, eh?
www.theregister.co.uk
The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord.
Issued by the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit (WMROCU) via local area councils, the poster in question lists a slack handful of common infosec tools – as well as some that clearly have nothing to do with computer security.
Should your child install Kali Linux, virtual machines (the image on the poster looks like Virtualbox) or internet privacy tool Tor, West Midlands Police wants to know immediately. And if – Heaven forfend – your sprog installs Metasploit to learn how to secure code, uses free chat service for gamers Discord, or gets a Wi-Fi Pineapple for research, you may as well report straight to your nearest prison and abandon your tainted offspring forever.
"If you see any of these on their computer, or have a child you think is hacking, let us know so we can give advice and engage them into positive diversions," intones the offending poster, forwarded to us by a reader and which we reproduce below in all its glory.
Oh no! I have VirtualBox, Discord and Tor on my computer! I guess I better fly to the UK and turn myself in to the police so they can tell me what a filthy hacker I am!
Also I have no idea what "WiFi Pineapple" even is. My guess is that it's a packet sniffer like Wireshark.
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