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This brings back fun memories of teenage mischief. Used sit around IRC channels with mIRC scripts looking for people who had the default BO port open.

Between that and unsecured smtp relays that didn’t limit the from address, we had lots of fun.

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And Winnuke, when you knew an unsuspicious user without a firewall (which was a necessity on IRC those days) saw his Windows crash when the user left with error message: "connection reset by peer"

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