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I understand why they would do this, in light of the attention this is getting. Whether the attention itself is the purpose of the posts or not isn't really rel
by Ancapistani 6y ago
I understand why they would do this, in light of the attention this is getting. Whether the attention itself is the purpose of the posts or not isn't really relevant to what gleaned from this.
Learning to evade restrictions is a powerful motivation for curious kids. How many kids are initially interested in figuring out how to play a browser-based game on their Chromebook, but in the process discover that learning programming is something that they enjoy and is accessible to them?
Some of my first "tech" experiences were learning to get around copy protection schemes for 90s-era software. That has directly lead me to the career I have today. These posts seem like the 2020 equivalent of learning just enough assembly to do a hex dump of an executable, find the serial number conditional, and invert the logic.