When I was a 9-year-old kid, I was busy worrying about what will happen if Tom wins and eats Jerry. But the story of this kid is different.
Delhi-based Reuben Paul from Austin, Texas is an accomplished hacker, app developer, cyber security expert and the CEO of Prudent Games. And he is just 9 years old.
Recently, this Indian-origin speaker was present at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 which is Asia’s foremost information security conference and one of the biggest hacker conferences in the world.
Paul, who was the youngest, stood on a chair to reach the microphone and quoted his hero, Spider-Man:
‘With great hacking skills you get power, and with great power comes great responsibility.’
Her mother, Sangeetha shared his son’s interesting story:
‘Reuben was selected for the Gifted and Talented programme (run by the Texas education system) and had to make a game. The others made board games and such like, but Reuben who is passionate about video games, decided to come up with one. That game was about shooting Ninja stars, but I wanted to bring in an element of math so you could only hit the monster if he had the right answer.’
This kid certainly has a bright future ahead of him. It’s stories like his that should give all of us hope for the future of cyber security.
Source: The Times of India