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by chrissnell 1589 days ago
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.
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Haha, right, my nostalgia blocked off that part of it. That was definitely a thing. IRC BNC:s became mandatory to avoid the risk.