WhatsApp, Ivan, and the need to hack

It was another time and another place. The proof? Yours truly in a position of responsibility, teaching a class in northern California, writes Michael Moynihan.

I still remember the day I encountered a chap in class from a specific ethnic group, openly cogging from the man in the seat next to him in a communications lesson for would-be software engineers.

I put on my sternest expression: “Ivan, you can’t do that. It’s copying.”