# Security bug - sketches accessible to the world

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/security-bug-sketches-accessible-to-the-world/22777>\
**Category:** p5.js\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/security-bug-sketches-accessible-to-the-world/22777 "2020-07-22T10:29:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/security-bug-sketches-accessible-to-the-world/22777/2 "2020-07-22T12:26:15Z")

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Hello,

There is some related information here:

> **[All Projects · processing/p5.js-web-editor](https://github.com/processing/p5.js-web-editor/projects/4#card)**
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> p5.js Web Editor, officially launched! Contribute to processing/p5.js-web-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

> [@oshedar](#):
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> This makes it difficult to teach as my students have access to the answers to my practice assignments

I would keep all solutions offline.

I do not use P5.js often but able to use it with P5.js mode in the Processing PDE (you need to update the \*.js files to current ones) and as per instructions [here](https://p5js.org/get-started/).

You can expect to have students visit the forums and there is a homework policy [here](https://discourse.processing.org/faq).

And discussion here:

> [@Helping students with their homework](https://discourse.processing.org/t/helping-students-with-their-homework/17745):
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> I tried to find some guidelines in the forum about how to help students who are asking for help with their homework. It may be useful to have this information in a very visible place on the site? In the past week have noticed a couple of instances of students asking for help with homework assignments BUT without showing any code or attempt at the code. I’m not sure how helpful it is for experienced coders to solve a student’s coding problem in its entirety without explanation. Nor is it ethica…

`:)`

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