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GauntletWizard on Oct 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking the Dropbox Space Race

This is hacking in the old jargon file sense (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html) or the MIT IHTFP sense (http://hacks.mit.edu/).

Automation, spoofing and security breaking tools are improving all the time. It's important that it's security researchers (and students) who are driving the arms race, not the criminal element.

hardik988 on Oct 21, 2012 [–]

I used hacking in the exact same sense. I applaud their initiative and hacker mentality.

But, it still doesn't change my opinion that it's cheating, and as user nthitz said, it's just a case of students being sore losers.

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