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Teen Interns Brute-Forced A Disk Install, With Predictable Results

The Register, Monday, August 18th, 2025

The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training

Welcome to Monday and another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes and reveal if they derailed your career.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Kerry' who way back in 1996, when he was still in High School, scored an internship at what he described as 'a large tech company.'

Kerry and another intern were put to work in a 'build lab' where the company created one of its software products.

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