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A fair number of programmers I respect have broken the law. Sometimes the law is an ass, and needs to be broken. And sometimes you're just so damn curious you
by heresy 17y ago
A fair number of programmers I respect have broken the law.
Sometimes the law is an ass, and needs to be broken.
And sometimes you're just so damn curious you have to figure out how it works, and you break it for the rush of both solving the problem and sticking it to the man.
Most people outgrow the latter, but I would think twice about the credentials of any programmer that did not do things of questionable legality growing up.
Curiosity is to be encouraged.
- dantheman 17y agoA lot of the early hacking was before there were laws against it.
- scott_s 17y agoI did nothing illegal related to computers growing up because my family didn't even own one until I was 15 (which was 1997). I didn't know enough to cause any damage until after my freshman year of college, at which point I was legally an adult. I am, of course, one anecdote. But I think that your test is a poor one.