Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode 65 of Under-Served.

Today, we are featuring Pete Langlois, Director of Information Technology at Accuant.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.

Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights, and their lessons learned.

And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Pete, thank you very much for joining us on Under-Served.

Hey, Andrew, thanks for having me on.

So, like me, your formative years were spent at the keyboards of Commodores and Apples. How did that start?

Yeah, I started somewhere around 4th, 5th grade somewhere around there with Commodore 64 as our first home computer.

Playing games and downloading stuff with a, you know, 300-bod modem back in the day.

Big thing, you know, we moved from school. We, you know, we had Apple twos and TI 32s and, you know, all this other stuff there.

And one of the cool things that I found when I got into middle school is they had computers, and that was a big thing for me.

And they allowed us to get in there and start messing around with the computers.

But 8th graders thought they were, they were cool with everybody else.

You know, they had a little password file. So you couldn't get on their system without their password.

And they wouldn't give it to anybody else. So my first 4a into hacking, you know, quote-unquote hacking.

I did a little buffer overflow, figured out what their password was, rewrote their code so that if they broke my code,

it would relaunch my batch file and effectively lock them out of their own system.

That was met swiftly with a visit to the vice principal's office.

And I had to give them the password and let them back onto their systems.

Yeah, that was, that was pretty fun. Are you into gaming back then too?

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