> You broke rules for personal enjoyment and weren't even good enough to not get caught. Otherwise known as being young and in their formative years. Plenty of

> You broke rules for personal enjoyment and weren't even good enough to not get caught. Otherwise known as being young and in their formative years. Plenty of HN had similar experiences and luckily even 15 years ago this harsh view on teenage stupidity was in the minority. He also doesn't seem claim to be a l33t whatever. > Not being prevented from accessing the system is not the same thing as successfully hacking a system unless you aren't caught either. > You didn't beat them, they beat you. They beat themselves, which was understandable back in the day but that's a popular narrative to this day. If a school kid with random scripts or untargeted ransomware gets into a system I put far more blame on the process that prevented them from being patched than said kid.