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He was in college. What was the most despicable thing you did in college? I've learned all my lessons the hard way -- I believe many hackers do too.

• pavs 16y ago
  I had root access to school IT network, thanks to default redhat username/password (that to from remote access). I was planning to do some real damage, poking around, too bad I forgot about it. Few months later when I tried to log in again but they closed down remote root access. It wasn't that I was a really bad person (at least I hope I wasn't) who had an evil intention to burn everything in my path, if I get chance, its simply because I was young and naive and there wasn't anyone there telling me how foolish it was to do what I was doing. I also had "Cain & Abel" setup on my computer lab and access to pretty much every single student (and faculty members) who was checking their email, myspace (facebook wasn't famous) and even their proprietary class management system with access to attendance/grading/unique school ids of each students and personal comments by instructor on student or class and what not. Thankfully I have short attention span, and soon I got bored of it and moved to something else. If I was caught doing what I was doing, I would almost surely be in jail or at least expelled from school. Now, sometimes I think of those naive things that I did when I was young and I shake my head. Case in point. When you are young you do a lot of stupid stuff, its not fair to judge people by what they did when they were young (even if it only 5-6 years ago). People can change drastically on their way to adulthood. I don't know Mark Zuckerberg in person to judge what kind of person he is, I don't think it is fair to judge him based on what he might have done when he was younger.