Quick thought: had he continued for years, he would be tried as an adult and completely screwed. As it stands, his adolescent trolling mentality has indirectly allowed him to have a chance at a normal life.
When he was 15 (about 15 years ago), he had the chance to do a lot of damage. He roamed in sites that store credit card information in an Access database (they didn't have PCI back then). He roamed in servers that have everyone under a www-data account and "partition" people with FTP accounts, so a script that allows you to traverse the .. dir would get everyone completely screwed. He used to ship items to himself. He got someone fired from his programming job because of his shenanigans.
Oh my gosh, he would have been so screwed if anyone ever made a big deal of anything he did.
But somehow that friend of mine didn't make the news - He went unnoticed. He went on with his life, and now he has a relatively normal life and does well for himself and everyone around him.
From his story, I always have the belief that adolescents will change, if they are forgiven and shown the way by seniors.
When he was 15 (about 15 years ago), he had the chance to do a lot of damage. He roamed in sites that store credit card information in an Access database (they didn't have PCI back then). He roamed in servers that have everyone under a www-data account and "partition" people with FTP accounts, so a script that allows you to traverse the .. dir would get everyone completely screwed. He used to ship items to himself. He got someone fired from his programming job because of his shenanigans.
Oh my gosh, he would have been so screwed if anyone ever made a big deal of anything he did.
But somehow that friend of mine didn't make the news - He went unnoticed. He went on with his life, and now he has a relatively normal life and does well for himself and everyone around him.
From his story, I always have the belief that adolescents will change, if they are forgiven and shown the way by seniors.