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Or you could be completely intolerant of tolerance (of racists).

I didn't say hate sites are "good." I made no such subjective statement. If you'll reread what I said, you might notice that my general statement applies to websites promoting any ideal, whether it's racist, anti-racist, liberal, conservative, feminist, vegan, religious, nihilistic... And the list goes on and on. Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in a little thing called the freedom of speech. I hate to break it to you, but freedom of speech means any speech. And don't call me "dude," please.

For future reference, here are the three steps to not looking like an idiot on the internet: Read, comprehend, reply.

P.S. And thank you, Devin_J. It looks like you got what I was getting at. =)

At one school, there was a system that allows you to view your grades given the username and password. I wrote a java program that decrypts those usernames, and I got everybody's username and password, but I never used them. That's good hacking, right?

That's cracking, not hacking. While figuring out how to write the program was hacking, you crossed the line to cracker by using it to gain access like that. Not using them, however, certainly helped.

I'll admit, back in the eighties, networks were a bit easier to ruin. I wrote a little program to fill up the network drive, forcing everyone to lose their hard work during term paper time. It is a tribute to how difficult my childhood was to still smile when I think of it. However, it wasn't a good thing I did. A hacker doesn't do such things.