Michael “MafiaBoy” Calce was just 15 years old. During his Exploit days, prior to being arrested, he had taken down the websites of some of the largest companies in the world, causing an estimated $1.7 billion in losses. He realized the depth of what he had done, after watching a news program where then President Clinton spoke about what “Mafiaboy” had done.

This video: “Rivolta: Inside the Mind of Canada’s Most Notorious Hacker” was produced by HP Canada. “Rivolta” was directed by Hubert Davis.

In one way this young person was extremely curious and yet his educators did not pick-up on that, so he sought out info elsewhere. In one part of the video, Michael Calce talked about taking a computer programming class in Pascal, but showed his instructor that he could code the course examples in far more powerful and complex “C Language“.

How many other genius kids who have the inner desire to learn, are also being missed by their Educators? Yes, this video is about the Exploits of a 15-year-old “Elite” Hacker, but it is also about an Educational System which in my opinion failed this young lad.

Video is courtesy of the HP Canada YouTube channel