[attrition] Dangers of L33t 5p3ak

[security curmudgeon]

From: Small Grey <munge at attrition.org>


Beware, parents:

<http://www.wbns10tv.com/?sec=home&story=10tv/content/pool/200604/33204078.html>

Online Language Leaves Parents in the Dark
Reported by Heather Pick

Leet Speak is part of a complicated and potentially dangerous code
designed to keep parents in the dark when children are chatting on the
Internet.

[...]

"It gives criminals, kids, whomever, another way to communicate
covertly with one another without maybe parents catching on to what
the kids are saying," Westerville Police Department Scott Dollison
explained.

[...]

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