“I’ve always found the best way to get a kid to learn how to hack is to tell them to just never use the computer,” Dave Aitel confides to Jaya Baloo in Episode 8 of our podcast Avast Hacker Archives (AHA). Dave is speaking from experience. When Jaya asks him about his earliest hacking exploits, he harkens back to high school days, when his parents enforced a strict “hands-off” policy with their home computer. They kept it locked in his father’s office.
