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USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

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460 points wglb | 3 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | source
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cvoss ◴[09 Aug 24 17:59 UTC] No.41204016[source]▶
> The creator is a current computer science student in China who is using the skills he's learning to make a pretty penny on the side.

There's a strong argument right here for teaching technology ethics as part of a typical CS curriculum. I'm not saying that would have stopped this student from making his own unethical choices, but it does highlight the fact that we equip people with these really powerful technical skills, but we don't even try to equip them with the ethics to be responsible about it. We just sort of hope they were raised right, I guess.

Anyone here have experience with a curriculum that includes the ethics aspect?

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1. mlavrent ◴[09 Aug 24 18:29 UTC] No.41204218[source]▶
The Brown CS curriculum has in the past few years started including “socially responsible computing” material across intro and non-intro level courses.

See https://responsible.cs.brown.edu/

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2. dgfitz ◴[09 Aug 24 23:38 UTC] No.41206295[source]▶
Why does it have to be social? Why not just “responsible computing” instead?
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3. TimedToasts ◴[12 Aug 24 12:30 UTC] No.41223649[source]▶
You know why