Ethics In IT

chiefloko writes "I am presently taking a Business Ethics class while earning my MBA. For my final paper topic I have chosen 'Ethics within the Information Technology realm.' Over the past 13 years I have worked for three corporations and have seen everything from the typical BOFH to ungodly pirated software use. I also bore witness to a remote user logging in to a poorly administrated Sun station, finding out s/he was root, and then reading co-workers' emails. I am interested in what the norm is for ethics in the IT world and some of the stories and outcomes."

Comments

When you frag a co-worker

[antifoidulus]

while using your companies machines to play Halo, don't hump him or her....it will only cause inter-office strife.

Then call me a sociopath.

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

Rest assured, at some point in the future a society will look back and consider walking past a bum without a glance just as sociopathic as slavery and homophobia. If ignoring the poor makes me a sociopath, then I'll be a sociopath. I shouldn't have to concern myself with the poor when the government takes at least a third of my salary and claims (as part of its justification for taxing me) that it is using tax dollars to help the poor.