[aaron695]

> he committed crimes to get there.

I don't consider cheating in exams a crime so I'll assume you mean breaking and entering.

I doubt the story, but I saw many people do similar breaking and entering for pranks at uni so have no real problem with that.

I also had access to a library of exams. Once I went to an exam to steal? a copy for next year, but I couldn't work out how to get it out of the room. This is what hackers do, test limits on conventional systems. I also did a lot of work.

You seem to be confusing a job (academia) with his life as an undergrad student, they are not the same.

He worked hard at Uni the way he/BBC tells it, that's good enough for me. I don't believe his story, I am sure it's not as clean as he says, but unless you have the info I'm commenting on the BBC tale.