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."

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Ethically speaking

[eclectro]

I never read slshdot.

FIRST POST

[Anonymous Coward]

FIRST POST!

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.

it's just another case of

[Anonymous Coward]

In the end of the day I started thinking that berlin writers kept tight system of propaganda of past policy in the mind and that they reused them in another context as to mourners to write their names everywhere in the most uncommon places was clearly symbolizing the population during the last 10 years. This is the city where you run the most, all the tunnels all the lays up that we went out by were controlled after finishing our pieces and taking our pictures we had to get our stuff and run before the police arrived warned by the station head chief of the alarms on the hatches.

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.