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

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460 points wglb | 2 comments | 08 Aug 24 23:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.584s | 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. eadler ◴[09 Aug 24 18:55 UTC] No.41204422[source]▶
All ABET accredited programs are required to include ethics and have been required to do so for over 15 years.

We explicitly learned about voht IEEE and ACM code of ethics for example (though this was not the only thing we discussed) . We were even tested on the difference. I'm always confused when people don't even get the baseline ethics training.

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2. ewoodrich ◴[09 Aug 24 22:16 UTC] No.41205800[source]▶
Yeah we all had to take it at Portland State because CS was ABET. Was kinda surprised to learn it wasn’t a standard CS requirement everywhere.

There was also an ethics module in one of the massive pre-weed out 100 level courses.