A few weeks ago Code.org launched with the goal of getting more young people excited about coding. When they launched there were rumors that they were producing a video with some of the biggest names in coding like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Today they released that video, and sure enough, Gates and Zuckerberg are in there. They're in good company too, with some big name coders from Twitter, Dropbox, and for some reason will.i.am. The takeaway message? Being a programmer now is basically like being a junk bond trader in the 1980s, except the cocaine and strippers have been replaced with free pizza and awesome rumpus rooms, and the bond trading has been replaced with doing something of some utility to society.

Those of you who have a lot of files that need storing somewhere offsite (no, we won't tell anyone about the nefarious things you like to keep around) maybe be aware of Dropbox, one of the most prevalent, easy-to-use cloud storage services on the Internet. The folks over at Dropbox are pretty cool -- they give you 2 free gigabytes of cloud storage just for signing up and 500 megabytes per each referral up to 18 gigabtyes -- but if you pay close attention to their Help Center, you'll find the Dropbox team is cooler than you thought.

Only a little over a week ago, Dropbox and their outside experts were claiming that there was no evidence of a hack. As it happens, they were wrong. They've now confirmed that some users did see unauthorized activity on a small number of accounts due to the recent slew of passwords being leaked across the Internet. On top of that, one of their employees had their account -- which included a document with user email addresses -- accessed as well. Oops.

Nothing's ever as secure as we think it is. Dropbox, having not so long ago accidentally dropped password protection on user accounts, has been receiving reports of folks receiving spam in their emails. Normally this wouldn't be an issue -- most email accounts get spam. The complicate things, the users have claimed that these accounts were unique to Dropbox; the only way for someone to be spamming them would be due to having somehow gotten the accounts from Dropbox.

Dropbox, the handy cloud storage service, has quickly become a stalwart companion for people looking to sync files across multiple computers or to share files with others. What users probably haven't realized is that the minds behind the service have a pretty good sense of humor, and hid a fun easter egg in the service. So far the trick only appears to work for OS X users, and seems to have been hidden in April, but only just now been discovered. It can be accessed by changing the name of a file (or folder) in your Dropbox folder to a series of pre-set phrases. Doing so causes a window to appear that scrolls through pictures and quotes from many of the Dropbox developers, followed by a special thanks and some words of wisdom. There's also a shoutout to Google, Microsoft, and Apple, perhaps a reference to those companies new interest in cloud-based services pioneered by companies like Dropbox.

Yesterday, the popular cloud storage service Dropbox accidentially disabled password protection for all accounts, leaving user's files open to the public and modifiable for about 4 hours. Dropbox serves around 25 million users and while all their accounts were accessible, Dropbox asserts that only less than 1% of accounts were active during that period, which is not necessarily indicative of foul play. They are still investigating whether any of those cases might have been unauthorized access.

The error was caused when Dropbox changed some code at 1:54 PST and was discovered four hours later. Upon discovery, all active sessions were killed and users who were active during the password-free period were notified and advised to check their use history. But that's where the buck seems to have stopped. As of now, Dropbox has yet to make a public statement on the matter. Neither their twitter nor their homepage makes any reference to the breach, which has some users a little upset.