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> What is there to say about the hack?

What is there to say about the [discovery]? Like everything back then it was probably accomplished by [a simple source code diff]...it is not at interesting 20 years later.

You get the idea. The story you know might be interesting to you because you happen to know the person involved. And it is sort of interesting? But not really as interesting as the _full_ story would be. In particular because your grammar in your original comment kind of implies you knew the actual attacker.

This all seems fairly obvious to me? Is there anything we're missing about the discovery? It's pretty mundane that one of hundreds of devs working on that source code happened to have a vanilla copy, especially in 2003 with a less reliable and slower internet.



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