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by nullserver 1933 days ago
Still used to the 90s when any Level of bypassing would get you labeled as a hacker, and people would demand you get fired or arrested.

Just knowing how things worked resulted in a number of people assuming I could hack banks, and either asking me too, or shunning me. Or flat out accusing me of it.

Umm you could go around mugging people much easier then I could hack stuff. That explanation never went over well.

Had to ask one boss to stop threatening employees to have me hack them. It was in jest, but I was terrified at how people would react if they thought I bypass security. Didn’t help that I knew how, as security was crap back then.

I leaned to keep my mouth shut, and refused to keep up with security stuff. Can’t hack if I don’t know how.