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I just realized that my first paid computer job was when I was maybe 15 and a random dude on the Internet hired me to write "security software that would persistently monitor and record keystrokes of his office employees and send a backup of the recordings out once a day as a hidden email in the background".

I was super excited about getting paid for writing software and let's say I was still morally very flexible and lacked any ethical foundation for my work. Typical "I was young and I needed the money" situation but it's scary to realize that bad people would hire literal teenagers to write malware for them.

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Jeroen Ubbink 1y ago

I used to build pc's for (mostly) family and did Perl with MySQL and cgi for webapps..

Great times!

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Niall Young 1y ago

jinx 🍻

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