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I had to check the article to understand how it is notable for a 4chan user to also be a business owner.

They're using "owned" in leet speak sense, infiltrated security.

yeah should probably be edited to "pwned" just to make it clear, even though "owned" is the original term for, well, getting owned/rekt/"hacked"/etc.

I too thought it would be about a company who was a sole proprietor of an infosec corp lol

Ok, we've s/o/p/'d the title above. Thanks!

Edit: oops, I meant s/ow/pw/.

Oh wow. I think that’s actually worth a title edit to add a note.

The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me.

I've seen owned plenty of times. "Owned a box" like that

yeah, "owned" came far before "pwned". Wiktionary cites this usenet post from 1996 https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sysadmin.recovery/c/IsdIZqfW... .. can't find an "earliest source" for "pwned" tho

"pwned" is from a late-90s StarCraft custom map where the map creator typo'd "owned" as "pwned" in a message that popped up when one player beat another.

pwn is a typo'd version of own, but since it's unambiguous it would have been better here

> The correct spelling in that case is pwned isn’t it? I got it from context, but those always felt like subtly different words to me.

For me owned was as in "CIA owned Crypto AG" not "netrunner owned the Chrome"

not that Chrome

Man I was wondering the exactly same thing! I’m not a native speaker so that might be why

Native speaker, and title confused me even being familiar with the whole owned/pwned thing. I clicked on the article simply because I was curious why being a 4chan-using sole proprietor would be at all interesting.

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