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Isn't the main problem that technology moves so fast that the only way to have an organisation (that must) be secure is to staff it with teenagers.

You can have incompetent but responsible adults or competent but irresponsible teenagers. Choose one?

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That's absurd. Why would a teenager know more than an adult about security?

The hackers are kids, the people getting broken into are adults, so apparently they do know more.

This is a really bad generalization. We don't know how old most of these hackers really even are. But let's just say, for sake of discussion, they were all kids. That doesn't necessarily mean they are more talented or know more. They are more focused, perhaps? The US government has fallen behind in cyber security. That doesn't mean the people they employ aren't as good as these hackers. In fact, the government probably holds them back.

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