Like Hacker Mother, Like Hacker Daughter

The parents who brought their young ones to the first-ever program for budding hackers from the ages of 8 to 16 feel the same way:

Hoff said basically most children in the United States are hackers in a way — “whether that’s video games and understanding the relationship of what makes that computer work.”

Hoff, whose wife is a scientist, said his children were “born digitally native” and he proudly describes his 7-year-old daughter as a “tinkerer, a hacker,” and said his 10-year-old daughter “by DNA, I think, was born to hack.”

Pint-sized hackers develop skills at convention [MSNBC]