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>>> I'd be a Windows admin today.<<< You didn't lose any body parts with your pipe bomb right? I hope I misread your comments.

• tptacek 16y ago
  Nope! The Anarchist Cookbook did not ruin my dreams of becoming a Windows admin, either. Seriously, though, if you asked me how I got started with my career, "The Anarchist's Cookbook" would be one of the first thoughts in my head. The topic is interesting to me because my thoughts on the book are so complicated.
  • todayiamme 16y ago
    I'm curious now. Why? I haven't read the book, but what appealed and stuck with that rebellious teenager?
    • tptacek 16y ago
      Without getting specific, let's just say that there's a path from "blowing stuff up" to "software security researcher" that involved me knowing how to code C before I was 15. My history of childhood mayhem is tamer than most stories you can read elsewhere and is pretty boring. I became an ISP admin while still a teenager and all this stuff got a lot less funny, fast.