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r/wallstreetbetsr/wallstreetbets· u/gosumage· 3d agoNews 0

In 1988, 11-year-old Dade Murphy was fined $45,000 for crashing 1,507 systems including Wall Street trading systems causing a 7% flash crash

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A meme post recounting the fictional plot of the 1995 movie 'Hackers' about a kid crashing Wall Street systems.

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The defendent Dade Murphy, who called himself "Zero Cool," repeatedly committed criminal acts of a malicious nature.

He possessed a superior intelligence, which he used to a destructive and anti-social end.

His computer virus crashed 1,507 systems, including Wall Street trading systems, single handedly causing a \\7-point drop\\ in the stock market.

His family was fined $45,000 and he was forbidden from touching a computer or touchtone telephone until the day of his 18th birthday.

7 years later in 1995, he was released, and the true-crime documentary movie Hackers was made, detailing his young adult life.

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