Story time from an oldfag.

Around 1990 my friend and I wardialed thousands of local numbers to find networked UNIX boxes to hack (internets did not grow on trees back then, if you wanted it you had to take it). He got a visit from a police officer because one of the ranges he dialed was a pager company so it caused every local doctor at every hospital to get paged for nothing which they weren't happy about, especially since he was dialing overnight. Officer talked to his parents, they told him to stop, and that was it. We stopped wardialing and hacked one of the servers we had found (it was very easy to hack shit back then but lets just pretend I was some amazing movie-level hacker). I used that server to hack other servers which I used for the nefarious purpose of... learning networking and UNIX development. I got Stevens' book and I'd login daily and build things and use my hacked machines as clients and servers. They were so ridiculously powerful and sophisticated compared to our DOS boxes with modems. Today I'm the head of design at a networking company I helped found and things are looking good. I've got some cutting-edge stuff in the works and I'm pretty confident we'll sell the company for a lot of money.

Looking back on that, had the kind of zero-tolerance policies that exist today been in place then, it would have ruined me. I'd likely have wound up jailed, banned from using computers, I'd have multiple felonies and couldn't vote, own guns, or get employed in the tech sector. I'd never have learned networking and I'd probably be working at a supermarket somewhere. My advice to you: be super careful as the current system is blind, stupid, and bloodthirsty. Keep your head down, hide your power-level.

While it's certainly good to further your knowledge, the way you did this harms other people. The system isn't blind, the system demands justice for your acts of intrusion. Your acts have consequences and you need to take responsibility for whatever you do.

I can relate to this. I was consistently prohibited from computers throughout my life. Now I work in tech and I'm more successful than my peers. If I had listened at the time, I would have been a burger flipper. Sometimes children do know better.

I didn't get my first computer until I was 16. It was a Gateway with an AMD K6 processor, 256MB of RAM, 5GB of hard drive space, running Win98 and connecting to the internet at a blazing 28.8Kbps. That was 2006. I had read so many computer books and written programs on paper that I was fucking dying to try it out. So what was the first thing I did? I looked up child porn on Limewire of course. Then I had a moral crisis and wanted to stop, but fucking windows wouldn't delete it for still unknown reasons. I figure that this is Jesus Christ trying to make me face punishment for my sins, so I panic, drop into DOS, and format c:. It took me three months to find a Windows install disk and several trips to the library trying to find drivers for that fucking US Robotics modem before I could get everything working again.

Looking back on that, had the kind of zero-tolerance policies that exist today been in place then, it would have ruined me. I'd likely have wound up jailed, banned from using computers, I'd have multiple felonies and couldn't vote, own guns, or get employed in the tech sector. I'd never have learned networking and I'd probably be working at a supermarket somewhere. My advice to you: be super careful as the current system is blind, stupid, and bloodthirsty. Keep your head down, hide your power-level.

>>4
Hilarious.

>>4
I guess that is Story time from a youngfag.

Why not simply not break laws? Then you wouldn't have to go to jail. You don't have to hack into servers or download illegal porn in a way leakier than a torrent. You could read books and look at legal porn or something.

>>7
Project gutenberg? Fuck that, I want to read modern books. If you never break any laws you'll end up like Javert.

>>8
Javert did his duty until the end. Valjean was a burglar who broke into peoples houses, a thief who stole the silverware of a priest who was trying to help him, a exploitative capitalist who parasitically fed off his disadvantaged workers, and a kidnapper who took off with a vulnerable little girl and abused her until she lost her memory of her life before he took her. Jean Valjean deserved life on that workboat because he was an inhuman monster. Javert did nothing wrong.

>>1

Looking back on that, had the kind of zero-tolerance policies that exist today been in place then, it would have ruined me. I

You would have became a professional criminal by now, living completely from crime activity. The best thing, you won't be the racist you are today, because there are no racists in a jail full of african americans.

>>1

I'd probably be working at a supermarket somewhere.

They don't hire former felons there. Basically, if you got once a felony, you're a felon for your whole life, so you behave according to that rule.

holy shit u doods are totla nsa levle super hackers pls dont terroize me lol oh my gosh

>>10
Wrong. I once worked with a guy at a summer job who went in a hippy and came out a hardcore racist Aryan Brotherhood member. He was a counterfeiter and got ten years. A few years later he killed a black drug dealer and an undercover cop. He was always nice to me though, but my dad owned the company, so he probably didn't want to break the parole deal by getting fired. Oh well.

>>9
That's not how I understood Valjean.

>>10
As if the African Americans weren't racists.

>>10
That's obvious. He only would have gone to jail if he was african american and african americans cannot be racist.

>>10
But niggers are self-hating as hecka. They know that they are inferior and they hate themselves for it.

From script kiddie to startup jew. You are everything that is wrong with this world.
Maybe you can patent a few ideas too huh.

>>17
No kidding. Middle-class niggas look at a nigga who got successful in the white man's game and moved up, and they all like "there goes Uncle Tom".