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Chico75 on April 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger

When did the "DOS Hacking" happen ? I did the same thing in middle-school (launched tracert from DOS) and was caught by a professor but didn't get reported to police luckily.

jiggy2011 on April 24, 2012 [–]

Around 1999-2001 during the dotcom boom when "hackers" were the new tabloid menace.

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