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Re:The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer F... by rmc on Saturday December 17, 2011 @07:12AM (#3364098)
Stop victim blaming. This was a cruel and mean thing for someone to do to someone taking thing first steps in learning about hacking.
Re:The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer F... by dredmorbius on Saturday December 17, 2011 @02:04PM (#3364846)
I'm not blaming the victim.

I am saying that, yes, he did something stupid and got spanked for it.

I'm also saying (and in my highly downvoted follow-up providing additional examples of) that it's reasonably if not highly plausible that the attack was wholly scripted and automated.

I've been burned myself -- by systems stuff as well as meatspace events. Very often the key finding of a particular experiment is "don't do that".

That was my point.