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skunkworks on June 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus...

This is fantastic. I did the same with a very similar botnet way back when, except my "hello" in IRC wasn't as friendly. Left to eat for an hour, then came back to my hard drive erased. Live and learn...

EricR23 on June 19, 2012 [–]

Thanks! I agree that things like this are pretty fantastic. Part of me misses those days of being so experimental and new to tech. Sorry to hear about your hard drive, though :)

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