[vmception]

I used to just DDOS people’s AIM and messengers if they crossed me, as a phantom curse attached to them and they had no idea the cause.

I would chat with them as normal at the same time, chuckling to myself as they kept falling offline following a barrage of emoticons and requests from my army of chat bots that made their process run out of memory.

Eventually I’d bore of it. Or have one of the chatbots tell them not to cross someone again. In your scenario I probably would have said it was the person he got the exploit from, instead of making a link to someone I care about.

[suzzer99]

Way way back in the day, my friend wrote a program that would format the user's Commodore 5 1/4" floppy disk (usually the one that also ran their BBS) if they just tried to load it. They didn't even have to run it.

If someone screwed us, we'd create a new identity and upload a file named after a hot new pirated game to their BBS. Then sit back and watch the BBS go offline for a while.

[grepfru_it]

Once in middle school, I wrote a fake format command and added it to autoexec.bat on my moms computer then promptly forgot about it because video games and sugar. Turns out she didn’t turn on her computer until Monday morning while I was at school. Mild mannered me was called to the principals office, expecting the worst. It was my mom on the phone frantically worried that her hard drive had just been nuked. I tell her what I did and she didn’t stop laughing for like 10 minutes. I was still grounded but I was allowed to use the computer or still play video games.

Ahhh the 90s

[vmception]

Niiiice, that reminds me of why I dont pirate Windows disk images any more, theyre all compromised! The “slim” builds with a buncha stuff deleted and also preloaded was nice, but now they just steal crypto.