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youtube.com — Warning to parents: You child may be using a very complicated and dangerous language called "Leet".

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  • MattR, on 10/12/2007, -5/+288Its reassuring that the “cyber detectives” are all over it, I’m a tad bit safer now
  • DirtyWorker, on 10/12/2007, -25/+248Think of the parents™! And I specially like how they reefer to it as an "Underground culture"...

    What is it with the USA? They create fear everywhere, no wonder the United States is screwed up.
  • toast1226, on 10/12/2007, -11/+211|)4Ng3|2, |)4Ng3|2, W|11 |20|3|N50N!
  • retral, on 10/12/2007, -3/+185Since when are acronyms considered leet?
  • Tricky, on 10/12/2007, -4/+128They'll still never figure out "haxx0r pwn j00 noob"
  • jacobo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12600H 5H17!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+112I cannot believe that kid, "1337SP34k can lead to danger..."

    Oh yes, 1337speak is just a gateway drug. Next thing you know he might be committing more heinous atrocities, like coding in Java!

    I hope his Apple catches on fire.
  • kingcam, on 10/12/2007, -6/+99No, no the best is "Leet is a type of computer language,"

    Uh last time I checked computer language looked like this 10111011001, and by the looks of it that police officer would be screwed if we all started talking in binary.
  • bokchoi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+89Up next: Is your child "pwning"? How your child's innocent game may emotionally scar another child for life.
  • myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -6/+79y35 1 4m
  • RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+75I was once a journalism major but after extensively watching the local news networks, I decided I didn't want to throw my life a way inventing new ways of scaring people. I don't care if you live in Seattle or *****, Wyoming: the local news SUCKS. Now I'm a geology major and feel I'm doing something productive for society :)
  • ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+70Ugh, this is why I don't like watching Channel 10 news here in central Ohio anymore. The retardation their reports spread is unfathomable.
  • fangorious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+70@cyroxos: "14/f/cali wana cyber?"

    I'll just get my robe and wizard hat.
  • pilotvaughn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70"It could lead to danger"
  • FogDogg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68heh, they have no clue what they're talking about... Wish news reporters would actually take the time to research what there reporting.
  • D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -4/+69|/|00|35!!!1111
  • EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+64Did that kid just show his parents his chat logs? O_o I don't know about you, but I prefer not to have someone looking over my shoulder when I'm talking to people normally.
  • cyroxos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6214/f/cali wana cyber?
  • bultaco370, on 10/12/2007, -11/+71hi are j00 home alone?
  • Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -4/+62I'm sure pedophiles ask directly, "Hi are you home alone now?"
    It's like a date rapist who'd use this line: "Hi, does this smell like Chloroform?"
  • carbonetc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+58It's amazing how local news manages to stay hip after all these years.
  • Aceanuu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59LMAO at this new report. Uh oh, I'm speaking in code! *gasp*
  • libbydib, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5401010100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01110011 00101110
  • damentz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+53It will take weeks to decrypt 'ORLY??' , so dont expect a response soon.
  • kerrybreyette, on 10/12/2007, -6/+560h n03s!
  • ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53crack this:

    ORLY?
  • signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+45l33t speak is a gateway for your kids to start doing PHP. Most teens who use l33t speak will try PHP at least once. Some will go on to do it all day, everyday.

    Talk to your kids now about the threat of PHP if you haven't already. It may be too late. Just be direct, and ask them if they've used PHP before.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+53god.. people are so stupid sometimes..
  • subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+471) L337 Speak was never invented to fool parents.
    2) Acronyms do not count
    3) I want to injure that whiny little punk
    4) I'm not surprised he uses an Apple
  • griz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Anything unknown will always spawn fear. For parents, this is an unknown, and therefore to them it is a reason to be fearful of what their child may be using it for.
  • z00k, on 10/12/2007, -8/+52Oh god... I have given up hope on our past generations.

    -Zook
  • idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45z0mg b3 frennd LOL Plz?~
  • KniteWulf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43ask him what this means:

    ZOMFGROFLCOPTERSOISOISOILOLOLOLPRINGLESFTWBBQ
  • unidentified, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43You guys are newbs....

    00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110001 00100000 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110000 00100000 00110000 00110000 00110001 00110000 00110001 00110001 00110001 00110000 00100000
  • TonySki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4101000010 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010010 01011001 00100001 00100001 00100001
  • PunkRampant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40haha I love the ignorant media.

    "Looks like a slow news day."

    "Yeah, we should take something completely insignificant and blow it out of proportion to make a good story."

    "What about those kids and their newfangled internets?"

    "That's it! Let's make it sound like teens are conspiring against us... again!"
  • expiredmeatbag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39from now on my aim conversations are in binary, just to throw them off
    /paranoia
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+390x48 0x65 0x78 0x20 0x69 0x73 0x20 0x6d 0x75 0x63 0x68 0x20 0x6d 0x6f 0x72 0x65 0x20 0x31 0x33 0x33 0x37 0x21 0x21 0x21 0x31 0x31 0x31 0x6f 0x6e 0x65 0x6f 0x6e 0x65 0x65 0x6c 0x65 0x76 0x65 0x6e
  • Naga10, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45I'm a teen, too, but there's no way I type like that. I used to use l33t all the time. Now I just find it completely retarded, so I don't use it, and yell at people who do.
  • robot1122, on 10/12/2007, -6/+420r r u
  • jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40This is like the 4th time on digg, and its as lame as it was back then. THe news always ***** up anything that has to do with computers, internet or technology.. bunch of morons
  • halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38internet safety expert? how do i get that job and what schooling do you need.
  • J6stik, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37Lmao, +digg for everyone in this convo.
  • spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I think this report makes it apparent you don't need any at all
  • muffinmanpoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3101010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101100 01100101 01101101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100111 01110100 01101000 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101110
  • RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36I don't think 1337 sp33k was "designed to keep parents in the dark." It's been around for a long time, and it's just used by n00bs to sound 1337.
  • sscamatt, on 10/12/2007, -7/+38We should start worrying about languages such as japanese and chinese. They may pose a large threat to our children.
  • briguymaine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33slow news day. no more ps3 shootings to talk about.
  • cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -14/+40The report was sensationalist and over reaching. The extent to which this is "dangerous" is far less than they espouse. However, their point is valid. Very few parents know what the ***** pwned means, or lol, or roflmao, or anything like it. I'm a parent, and if I weren't a computer geek by trade I'd probably not have a freaking clue what leet speak is. I'd imagine most of us agree here the best way to protect a child on the Internet is to give them the tools to behave properly on the Internet; knowledge and the ability to make good decisions. However a ten year old is going to make some pretty stupid ass decisions, its part of growing up. So in the end a responsible parent will not allow their ten year old to use the Internet without checking in now and again. If said parent just attributes leet speak to some silly little nothing, they can be kept in the dark. I guarantee you thousands of little ***** are using leet speak right now to minimize how much info their parents can garner from their emails and chat sessions. If a parent is taught to google some leet speak words now and again so they have a clue, the report did some good.

    Sensational and over-blown? Sure. Good point? Absolutely.
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