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by maicro 1524 days ago
Neopets for social engineering/scamming - converting "disposable" digital cameras into reusable (solder in a USB port, do...something to gain access to the memory to download files) was my introduction to hardware and firmware/software hacking and reverse engineering. Nowhere near enough of it stuck at the time, and I kinda wish I had gotten more in depth then, but ~19 years later those core interests have turned into skills...