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A real hacker, maybe. A script kiddie is by definition someone who wouldn't notice.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/script-kiddies.html



I made the slightly alarming realization yesterday that some script kiddies are old enough to have grandkids by now.


I wonder how many of them graduated to the level of hacker witches / hacker wizards, and how many of them are nothing but script grannies / script grampses even today.


Script grandkiddie?




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