DefCon Kids - what does that tell ya?

I'm not sure whether I think Defcon Kids  is really cool or really scary - hacking fundamentals for kids as young as eight, assuming they are accompanied by a parent. 

Let's say they learn some mad skillz - with the way case law is evolving around what consititues illegal behavior in cyberspace, those parents better be willing to sign on to the implications of any future bad behavior!  Check out the Rolling Stone article here.

So, all my friends that were kiddie hackers chatting each other up on ICQ from their Commodores are younger than I am.  Now they are sending their kids to DefCon?

Wow....Talk about through the looking glass...