[croon]

Man I miss the old internet when things were more playful and that was the extent of harm being done. Not that I condone cheapskates stealing your bandwidth.

Maybe it's just rosy nostalgia.

[chrissnell]

Oh, believe me, that wasn't the worst. The worst was an undergrad in a university computer lab who harnessed many dozens of workstations to DDoS us off the net when he got into an IRC argument with someone.

[croon]

Haha, right, my nostalgia blocked off that part of it. That was definitely a thing. IRC BNC:s became mandatory to avoid the risk.

[efitz]

Remember when security was pretty much just scanning floppies for viruses before you ran the program?