Teens did not “just hack a state election,” no matter how many headlines are published to make it look like they did. So, please don’t believe the hyped-up story in which a self-described “not even a very good hacker” brags about how he could “theoretically bring an election to a screeching halt.”

If you are familiar with this story, it begins with a conference that allowed fifty kids — some as young as eight — to participate in trying to hack a replica website that was designed to be easily hacked by them.