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'.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:
> 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'....
You have proven my point - thanks ;-)
You have expressed something that you admit was "to my way of thinking"
which is not something that is agreed upon by everyone.
I have personally 'hacked' into my own customers networks at times to
demonstrate to them that they have security problems. I didn't consider
it 'hacking', but other would.
In one case it was trivial as they had no firewall yet, and I printed
something out on their printer from remote to say "by the way, you need a
firewall".
In your mind, was I unethical? If you think I am unethical, does that
not prove my point that "ethics" is a very subjective thing? If you think
I am not unethical, where do you draw the line between what I did and what
you *personally/subjectively* consider to be 'hacking'?
> bill
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