Indeed, as the BBS software at no point behaved other than as designed, it arguably doesn't even count as an exploit.

Semantics. I don't think he should be using this BBS as his own personal script-testing playground.

That makes him a "white hat".

No, it makes him a budding script kiddie. If he were a White Hat, he would have apologized to this BBS and then sent the information to the UBBThreads people. Instead, he left the script to auto-execute, thinking it was clever and fun.

Say, does anyone remember, once upon a time, when this BBS hosted lively and intelligent discussions about in-car MP3 players? Back in the old days, when everyone here was focused on the topic(s) at hand, before we had people trying to script exploits?