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by ethbr1 240 days ago
Oh, the bugtraq era, when any grade schooler could download a 0day POC and force remote reboot his classmates' laptops. (I'm told)
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Grade schoolers didn’t exactly have laptops in the 00s.
Thanks to the largess of a media company (read: school admin golfed with the right people), we had them issued ~97.

A lot of kids learned about cybersecurity and emulator config (and Harvest Moon) because of it, so net win?