You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hamza Mostafa, 21, who lives in San Francisco.

This photograph shows a screen during the 18th edition of the "InCyber" Forum, an international cyber security event, at the Grand Palais in Lille, northern France on April 1, 2026. The forum, which ...