I've found the same thing. It's a good way of keeping kids thinking while having fun. Furthermore I think it builds confidence in their own way of thinking and a natural scepticism to new information. Is the world playing tricks with me again or is it valid information?
Is it related to that Iranian kidnapping plot that led to Denmark being shut down for a while the other year? (Only because it's the most dramatic thing to happen there in a bunch of years, that would be related to the intelligence service.)
Strange nobody mentions the value of domain knowledge. My opinion is that there's little difference between young and old developers, but a difference in their domain knowledge. Valued software developers understand not only software but also their problem domain.