Re:Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990
by rikacomet on Friday January 18, 2013 @08:38AM
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back then, making a worm was way different than it is today. Today, most of them are intended to do damage today, back then, it was a technical feat to be able to write something like that. Look for the good part as well, like his the son of a UNIX co-founder.
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Re:Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990
by AndyNemmity on Friday January 18, 2013 @10:27AM
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when i was younger we did the same thing, and everyone I knew did as well. It wasn't ever intended to do damage.
the incredible level of trouble that I could have gotten into would have dwarfed my imagination. thankfully this was before anyone significantly cared.
I'm not even old. Then again, now there are tons of outlets to learn and play with things. breaking bbs's and other random things was a lot of my childhood simply because I lacked real outlets to learn. although a lot of that time seems wasted as being particularly good at taking efnet channels doesn't really translate into much but problem solving technique.
today i imagine i'd be working on yet another javascript framework.