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by TheHappyOddish 1271 days ago
I had an almost identical experience (NN based, cracking SAM files with l0pht, expelled). I always thought the same. My old sysadmins at the school were running (without the administrations awareness) IRC leafs and newsgroup servers, and I would have been happy to be part of that.

I ended up ditching school and starting a business, and I'm glad I did. Despite it ending up positive though, the expulsion still rubs me the wrong way decades later.