Sorry for my bad English... Well, to be honest, no. What I wish to see is that they have a normal behavior that we all expect from a cop, a bus driver, a postman, my neighbor, my kids and wife, or to be short, from all people where we acting with daily. From a doctor, a lawyer, a judge, a priest, etc I expect more. I don't put system administrators (including myself) higher than the rest of the world or on the same height as a judge, etc... Sorry.
To be honest, If I am a perfect BSD specialist, working for US or Belgian defense industry, making BSD as the base for guided missiles, I'm I in that case a problem for the ethic code? What if I do that for bin laden? Am I better or worser if I work for the defense industry or for the peace movement? Or is it a problem if I work is a BSD admin for a pope in Rome or for the a Islam institute in Saudi-Arabia. What if I am a CIA (Russia, Belgian) agent that use BSD for spy jobs, is that ethic ok? I know, when you have control over a server you can use that to log, duplicate, copy, mail, traffic, etc. What if my boss says I have to copy all the in and outgoing mails for supervision (what he does with that I have no idea) is that ok because it's a order from my boss? What if that is in contradiction with privacy laws (it's still my boss, he sign my paycheck)... Say no because it's in contradiction with the ethics code? Justin Wiley schreef: >I'll add a small contribution to the code of ethics debate... > >Doctors have to obey a code of ethics, lawyers do, MBA programs require >ethics classes. > >Are system administrators any less important then these people? Would >you not want the sysad at your ISP to have at least considered the >moral and legal implications to reading your mail? Wouldn't you want >to be able to scorn the certified BSD ad who sets up a massive spam >farm. Wouldnt you want to be able to tell a reporter: "he/she broke >the code, we are not all hackers, we tell people not to do this". Isnt >about time software developers and admins started self-regulating >(instead of having to endure more Computer Misuse Acts). > >Open source software is based on community standards, one of those >standards is ethical behavior (no backdoors, no spam etc), shouldnt an >open source cert be based on those standards too? >_______________________________________________ >BSDCert mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert > >. > > > -- 171.be Patrick Coeman ICT consulting & beveiliging - Informatiebeveiliging naar ISO-17799 Openbron en openstandaarden - GNU Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD BTW / Ondernemingsnummer: BE-0868.969.748 Bredestraat 171 - 2620 Hemiksem 0476 959505 - 03 8777998 _______________________________________________ BSDCert mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert
