15-year-old arrested for unsubscribing over 40k anime accounts

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• Fuck around and find out
  by umuttalha0
• did they fail to protect the endpoints? not much detail here
  by dmvjs
• > The student admitted to the allegations, saying, "I started using computers when I was in the fourth grade and taught myself everything I know. I happened to be able to access the information and had nothing against the company."

  A while back I read the excellent graphic novel Wizzywig about hacking, and my takeaway was that, at base level, a hacker is a lock picker with insatiable curiosity.

  by cainxinth
• The defining feature of hackers and hacking culture is not computers (hackerdom is larger than, and predates, computers), but curiosity. The drive to know how things actually work.
  by JohnFen