Cyber warriors

SIR – Many years ago, as an inquisitive teenager, I constructed a VHF receiver that allowed me to access the local police radio network. Today there are frequent reports of young people who have penetrated a supposedly secure computer system (“Teenage hacker in data breach at TalkTalk was ‘just showing off ’ ”, report, November 16).

Teenagers, especially those with obsessive tendencies, think differently from most adults, and can operate in ways that older experts had never even considered. Perhaps the spy agency GCHQ should make an effort to recruit these young people and redirect their energies into reporting weaknesses in computer systems. Harry Leeming Morecambe, Lancashire