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Re:Ask HN: Is black-hat hacking harder now than it was 20 ye... by wmf on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @09:47PM (#985176)
OTOH, learning about that stuff was much harder in those days; it was much more underground and word-of-mouth.
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Re:Ask HN: Is black-hat hacking harder now than it was 20 ye... by dnsworks on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @09:59PM (#985191)
I don't know about that. Within a month or two of buying my first modem in 1992 I was on bulletin boards that had FIDOnet subscriptions, which quickly gave me enough information to be dangerous.
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