I got caught hacking before they even knew what a 'hacker' was. Might be the first? Who's got me beat?
I hacked systems on campus c1975. I worked successfully around several attempts to thwart my efforts. During that time I 'texted' with someone (using a teletype) all the way across the country in Seattle (not surprising). I don't know who? I eventually got caught hacking and summoned into a dean's office. They just wanted to know what I was doing and maybe why? They had no clue. I ended up managing LISP for them for a short time. Then, when I was looking for a job, the CIA setup an interviewed with me that I didn't request. Haha. Interesting. I am probably still on a list someplace.
Oh, I should mention that I got a BSEE from that college. And every programming related assignment that I did (EE's suddenly had to learn some assembly language) ended up getting the attention of the CS professors. They met with me and mostly wanted to know where I learned to do that. I could program circles around some of them even before I graduated high school.
I went into the workforce and almost everything I had to do benefited from my insane ability to reverse engineer. I eventually started a company whose tech I developed based upon what I had learned through all of that. Now I am on my third company and still busy.
But nobody cares. I have legitimately created some pretty complicated stuff and all of it goes unnoticed. But, never fell back to the dark side after graduation.
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