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USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

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460 points wglb | 3 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. Ozzie_osman ◴[09 Aug 24 07:21 UTC] No.41199517[source]▶
Hilarious. Exposing an LFI to view things like /etc/passwd and server logs, and a SQL injection in a PHP stack... I prob wrote code like this, when I was a 15 year-old self-described "webmaster" in 2002.
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2. Ozzie_osman ◴[09 Aug 24 07:23 UTC] No.41199524[source]▶
Actually, I'm not that far off.

> The creator is a current computer science student in China who is using the skills he's learning to make a pretty penny on the side.

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3. DrammBA ◴[09 Aug 24 17:22 UTC] No.41203732{3}[source]▶
At $200/user/month he's making more than 99% of highschool students and computer science students