Samy Kamkar Talks About How He Accidentally Crashed Myspace in 2005

Here's a great story about hacking and why you should never do it, even if you aren't trying to harm anyone! In 2005, Samy Kamkar took down Myspace using a piece of code to add more friends to his profile. This code created a worm that ended up taking down the site for a time and causing lots of problems for the staff. In this Motherboard video, Samy recounts the experience and how it changed his life.

To pick up where the video leaves off, Kamkar returned to computers and continues to have a lucrative career. He's known for exploiting flaws in major corporation's codes, and also created the "Evercookie," which is a undeleteable cookie that tracks Tor users.

Overall, not a terrible ending, although not one I would risk for three years worth of Saturdays picking up garbage on a highway and a $20,000 fine.