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Comment by z3c0

7 hours ago

Decades worth of hackers missed the opportunity to say "It wasn't me -- my computer did it."

I've head the 'the hacker did it' excuse from lots of companies that messed up themselves but did not want to admit it.

  • I got banned from school computers and nearly expelled from high school (and threatened with “blacklisting,” lol) for “hacking” after a virus got into their network. Took them a month to figure out what really happened. Or at least, a month to come clean about it.

Gottfrid Svartholm tried that defense but he still ended up spending three years in prison.