On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:04:36 -0400 (EDT)
Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Ethics is a rather personal thing. You'll want to define
| membership criteria for a SIG, and totally avoid the phrase
| 'ethics'.
No. You may have your personal beliefs and may even share them with
some people, but a set of ethics is defined with respect some
external standard by which behaviour can be measured. Developing a
code of ethics is about a lot more than deciding how you feel about
an issue. It's about defining how a professional group, as a whole,
should behave.
Take for example security. Common designations for hackers are black
hat, grey hat, white hat.... To my way of thinking it is
unacceptable for an IT professional to break into anyone else's
computer for any reason whatsoever. Getting caught doing so,
advocating, instructing or supporting those who do so could be
regarded as 'conduct unbecoming a professional'....
bill
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