Comment Re:Kids these days. (Score 5, Insightful) 378
they were inquisitive, did some research, and experimented on a system, and succeeded in gaining unauthorized access. they then responsibly reported their findings to the device owner.
what these kids did, while perhaps not quite on par with hacking the gibson, still very much represents the (white hat) hacker ethos at work.
you, on the other hand, represent the asshat ethos, for downplaying what they did and trying to fiddle fart around with semantics.