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Re:How a 22-Year-Old Discovered Meltdown and Spectre by nerdponx on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @11:46AM (#16169390)
Out of curiosity, what did you do that was so bad as to get you kicked out of school twice?
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Re:How a 22-Year-Old Discovered Meltdown and Spectre by chisleu on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:32PM (#16181102)
In High school I discovered the admin's secret account password was "god". (1995 maybe? I was 15)

In college (1997? I was 17) I downloaded the source code of the unix client for back orifice. I read some of the source because I was interested in socket programming and reading Unix Network Programming. I compiled it, and deleted it without running it.

They were on edge because "god" from high school called to warn them about me.

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Re:How a 22-Year-Old Discovered Meltdown and Spectre by Apocryphon on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:57PM (#16199649)
Did the admin literally watch Hackers and use that password as a goof
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Re:How a 22-Year-Old Discovered Meltdown and Spectre by termhn on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:19PM (#16178916)
It doesn't even have to be bad. I was very nearly kicked out of my middle school just for booting from (!) my own live Linux USB drive on a school computer.
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