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2025-12-26 15:29 UTC
@hittitezombie@mastodon.me.uk @tbortels@infosec.exchange @soph@grrl.me @hazelweakly@hachyderm.io ethics wasn’t even an *option* in school for me, and I went to one of the highest-ranked engineering programs in the US - undergrad and master’s. It almost never comes up in my professional life. Not that that’s a good thing - work just has a way of crowding out anything that isn’t in service of a deliverable.
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@tbortels@infosec.exchange 2025-12-26 15:58
@soph@grrl.me @pork_soda@friendsofdesoto.social @hittitezombie@mastodon.me.uk @hazelweakly@hachyderm.io It honestly should be part of the general education core curriculum, right there alongside Math and English for incoming freshmen right out of high school. I'd argue that ethics (and ethical behavior) *serves* business and deliverables. But then I work in computer security and adjacent, where someone doing a poor job with things like private data handling can cause major issues down the road. In computer science, as in all science, "first do no harm" should be a foundational rule, but clearly some kids don't get that message...