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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: 0.451s | 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. Fokamul ◴[09 Aug 24 20:44 UTC] No.41205273[source]▶
Clearly you don't understand Chinese mindset, do you think he has no ethics? He has a lot of ethics, because he wouldn't dare to hack Chinese citizens, we know why :) but everyone else (except Russians, of course) are open-season for them.
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2. insane_dreamer ◴[09 Aug 24 20:52 UTC] No.41205323[source]▶
> He has a lot of ethics, because he wouldn't dare to hack Chinese citizens

That has to do with fear, not ethics; the consequences of getting caught doing this to Chinese (vs foreigners) are significantly high (you do not f*k around with a system that has no due process)

3. djmips ◴[10 Aug 24 06:14 UTC] No.41207678[source]▶
I feel like you don't understand the word ethics the same way I do.