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  • Hacker News
  • Fuck around and find out
    by umuttalha0
  • no real damage done just small inconvenience. and he exposed bandais bad security. if a 15 year old with chatgpt (not even claude or glm) can get write access to all your users accounts you are the one who should get investigated.
    by tancop
  • 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