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Avoiding homework with code and getting caught

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Re: Avoiding homework with code and getting caught

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Post by aabbccsmith »

Between 2018 and 2020, I wrote a website that cloned the databases of a couple online learning platforms, and used it to skip lots of homework I should have done.

I wrote this at the beginning of the year, but never released it as I was never sure if I was missing details. I realised today there is no point in keeping it hidden, so brushed it up a bit and published it.

Btw, the repo that houses the blog is open source, so feel free to fork or whatever and use it as your own

Re: Avoiding homework with code and getting caught

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Post by aabbccsmith »

jrockway wrote: post #3

I love the veiled threat to "take a legal approach" in the last email. If I ever take over the world, there will be a law where if you imply that you're investigating litigation, you have to file your case within 24 hours or the ability expires.

Hahaha true, and that's really not even a terrible idea to give 24 hours.

We definitely ended things on a good note with Hegarty & Educake. They were really friendly to us and also super helpful to be honest, good team over there.

Re: Avoiding homework with code and getting caught

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Post by jrockway »

aabbccsmith wrote: post #4
jrockway wrote: post #3

I love the veiled threat to "take a legal approach" in the last email. If I ever take over the world, there will be a law where if you imply that you're investigating litigation, you have to file your case within 24 hours or the ability expires.

Hahaha true, and that's really not even a terrible idea to give 24 hours. We definitely ended things on a good note with Hegarty & Educake. They were really friendly to us and also super helpful to be honest, good team over there.

That's good to hear. Maybe it wasn't a veiled threat, but rather an attempt to be nice. ("A lot of companies would sue you right now, but we would never do that," could be an alternate reading.)

Re: Avoiding homework with code and getting caught

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Post by mynegation »

Everyone has to start somewhere. These young lads “worked around” couple of educational platforms. 35 years ago I was hex dumping ZX Spectrum game saves and disassembling the program files to get more lives, infinite lives or just more ammo or whatever. That seemed easier and more interesting than getting good at games themselves.

I sometimes wonder if that kind of “not approved” intellectual curiosity can be used to augment education. Sort of like having old school alarm clocks that are designed to be disassembled.

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