script kiddie

British

noun

slang a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet

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“Like, is this going to be a state actor? Is it going to be a disgruntled employee? Is it going to be, you know, a script kiddie in a basement?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023

The database contains a lot of script kiddie comments about the need for PayPal; they don’t seem to get Bitcoin.

From Forbes • Jan. 20, 2015

His Web page http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk features a number of hopelessly naive articles, essays, and rants, all filled with the kind of misspellings, studlycaps, and number-for-letter substitutions endemic to the script kiddie and warez d00dz communities.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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