Dr. Casey Fiesler on Nostr: Just saw a TikTok from a woman explaining how when she was 12 she learned HTML so she ...
Just saw a TikTok from a woman explaining how when she was 12 she learned HTML so she could make Neopets websites and then (legitimately not realizing that this might be bad) creating a fake login page to trick people into giving her their account passwords. She says she had no idea why this was wrong until her dad caught her.
This is the best example I've ever heard of the "you can do a lot of damage with a little bit of code" re: why ethics should be part of learning intro programming.
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2023-05-16 14:01:36Event JSON
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