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Woz Expounds On His Hacking Shenanigans and Online Mischief
coondoggie writes "In his keynote address at a security conference today, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak admitted he has enjoyed many adventures in hacking often for the sake of pranks on friends and family, especially back in his college days and the early years of working on computers and the Internet. 'I like to play jokes,' said the Wozniak jovially as he addressed his audience of thousands of security professionals attending the ASIS Conference in Chicago. The famed inventor at Apple admitted he also had some fun with light-hearted forays into hacking computer and telecommunications networks several decades ago back in his college years and while learning about electronics and computers."
I remember being in sixth grade and taking a data processing class. I told the teach that I could hack the school computer which was a PDP11/4a (if I remember correctly).
He said, no you can't
I said, "Yes I can"
He said again, "No you can't"
I said I most certainly can!
He said, "I dare ya to prove it"
So I did just that and did a cat /dev/random>sda1 or some such thing, and erased the days works from the RPG class.
Nearly got expelled for it! It was worth the fun! Goes to show ya!
Now I am up to much much more constructive fun with this kickstarter project!
Best Damn iPhone Case EVER!
By the way iWoz is a great book! Go Woz!