11-year-old sixth-grader Ruben Paul of Austin (USA) at a conference on cybersecurity in the Netherlands showed how almost any "smart" device can be turned into a weapon. It is reported by The Guardian.

"From aircraft to cars, from smartphones to smart homes - any device and any toy can be part of the" Internet of things ". From the terminators to the teddy bears, any object or toy can become a weapon, "the schoolboy said.. His statement, he supported with his teddy bear Bear, equipped with Bluetooth.

First the boy connected his laptop to the device Raspberry Pi, scanned the room for available Bluetooth-devices and downloaded a few dozen phone numbers present in the room of experts on cybersecurity. Then, with the help of one of the received numbers, the schoolboy cracked his teddy bear and made him blink the lights and play audio recordings.

Recall Ruben began to be interested in information technology, when he was five years old. Then he learned such words as "firewall", and mastered the programming language of programming Scratch.

After that, the boy learned other programming languages ??and created his first mobile application - an assistant for solving school problems in mathematics. He then founded Prudent Games to release mobile applications. Ruben himself became its general director, and his father - a business partner and employee.

Shkolnik is also the youngest owner of the black belt in the United States in Shaolin Wushu and with the help of his family founded a non-profit organization CyberShaolin. It should inform children and adults about the consequences that can occur if cybersecurity is neglected.