Can children become productive following an Internet related crime?

Having said that children are more adapt at using the internet to commission a crime, it now worth considering whether or not we can capture this to help make the child more productive in society. Anyone who has seen the movie Catch Me If You Can, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the real-life role of Frank Abagnale JR. will be able to tell you than young adults can be very ingenious indeed. What may not be so well known is that after completing his time, Frank Abagnale JR. became and extremely wealth man and repaid all of the debts he accumulated as a fraudster. How did he do this? Simple really, he showed those who he defrauded exactly how he did it and he then made an extremely successful career out of introducing new security measures so that nobody could do exactly what he had done! If we take this example one set further, could be not utilize the skills of today's children to help us to protect security and highly confidential information on the Internet? This would also provide them ...  more