For me, the origin of this was from "Smashing the stack for fun and profit (1996)"[1], which does actually refer to somewhat malicious purposes. Apparently it h

For me, the origin of this was from "Smashing the stack for fun and profit (1996)"[1], which does actually refer to somewhat malicious purposes. Apparently it has existed in literature for a long time before that though[2]. [1] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?id=14&issue=49 http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?id=14&issue=49 [2] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-the-origin-of-phrase-for-fun-and-profit http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-the...