Aaron Portnoy started his hacking career when he was still in high
school, at the Massachusetts Academy of Math & Science in Worcester,
which not coincidentally was the institution he hacked. He did it as
follows: Portnoy had a friend call one of the dorms, posing as tech
support. The students were more than happy to give him their passwords.
Hiding behind those borrowed accounts and routing his approach through
proxies in various foreign countries, Portnoy wormed his way into the
school’s network through a bug in the system that’s technically known as
a vulnerability, or even more technically as a zero-day. “I had access
to every email, grades, everything,” he says.
TIME | 21 July 2014 issue
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