Ethics is an interesting concept - first thing that may come a person's mind:
"good and bad"
"wrong or right"
"black and white"
Personally, when one finds themselves in IT related predicaments, I'm guessing it's not that usual to land in a black or white situation, but one of a million shades of gray.
A few more:
"the way one lives"
"actions that land you on the right (good?) side of the fence"
"oath"
"creed"
etc . ..
What is a creed? One definition in an online dictionary defines it as ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creed ) : " . ..any system or codification of belief or of opinion. .."
eek . . . the entertainment industry (I'm guessing a person can come up with centuries or more worth of examples there) would have us believe in "good" creeds or "bad" creeds - religions, knights, assassins and more.
One might also ask - will your ethics lead you to copy chunks of the comments to the slashdot article above? Ethics in research and writing papers - that's a fought over issue as well. (people often hate to look in this mirror:)
Several professional groups have published "ethics" . ..
To pick a few. Look kind of like science/fantasy fans might see as guild rules:)
IT is no different.
People who strive for SANS/GIAC certification agree to their ethics as part of completing the certification process. ( http://www.giac.org/overview/ethics.php )
I'm guessing there are very few if any CS or IT related courses that don't include some kind of ethics class or section.
Personally - when I was growing up - with a lot of computer enthusiasts in the neighborhood - some slided one way or the other (ethics wise) and some stood fairly firmly on one side or the other (usually the "old guys").
I've been in the professional IT industry for several years - and doing semi-professional IT stuff on and off years before that. Seeing I'm still there - I hope I'm on the an acceptable side of the fence:)
I've been involved in a few ethics dust-ups over the years . . . never got a horrible
Anyone considered creating a liveCD with EDA tools? anything from verilog, rtl, magic, spice, board simulation & layout tools?
or maybe some combination of the above?
Seems that there are lots of other specialties that have spun their own distros - I'm surprised that the Electronics and prototyping communities have not.
I was considering giving it a shot, but time seems awful short these days.
A couple of years ago - I ran across a the BASIS project - instrumentation that was used at the Salt Lake City Olympic games, to detect possible biological attacks...
My current job is/was Systems Administration. On my own time outside of work, I started learning about aerosol science and ended up designing some instrumentation - outside my day job to detect nasty stuff that affects the Respiratory System. My employer eventually gave me what they call a "determination of rights" - so that I own all the intellectual property. There were weeks that I would spend up to 80 hours outside my day job. Kinda tough on the family though.
How serious are you about science? Whether you get a formal education or self educate and network your way into a scientific position, it'll take a bunch of work - but there is hope - people do it!
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Ethics is an interesting concept - first thing that may come a person's mind :
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.any system or codification of belief or of opinion. . ."
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:)
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"good and bad"
"wrong or right"
"black and white"
Personally, when one finds themselves in IT related predicaments, I'm guessing it's not that usual to land in a black or white situation, but one of a million shades of gray.
A few more:
"the way one lives"
"actions that land you on the right (good?) side of the fence"
"oath"
"creed"
etc . .
What is a creed? One definition in an online dictionary defines it as ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creed ) : " . .
eek . . . the entertainment industry (I'm guessing a person can come up with centuries or more worth of examples there) would have us believe in "good" creeds or "bad" creeds - religions, knights, assassins and more.
One might also ask - will your ethics lead you to copy chunks of the comments to the slashdot article above? Ethics in research and writing papers - that's a fought over issue as well. (people often hate to look in this mirror
Several professional groups have published "ethics" . .
American Chemical Society ( http://pubs.acs.org/meetingpreprints/ethics.html )
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=198 )
American Institute of Architects ( http://www.aia.org/about_ethics )
American Institute of Chemical Engineers ( http://www.aiche.org/About/Code.aspx )
American Society of Landscape Architects ( http://www.asla.org/about/codepro.htm )
Instutute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers ( http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/iportals/aboutus/ethics/code.html )
To pick a few. Look kind of like science/fantasy fans might see as guild rules
IT is no different.
People who strive for SANS/GIAC certification agree to their ethics as part of completing the certification process. ( http://www.giac.org/overview/ethics.php )
SAGE, LOPSA & USNIX share the same code of ethics - http://lopsa.org/CodeOfEthics
ACM - http://www.acm.org/about/se-code
CISA, CISM, CGEIT - ( http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Code_of_Professional_Ethics&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=20454
)
SSCP, CAP & CISSP (certification) ethics - ( https://www.isc2.org/cgi-bin/content.cgi?category=12 )
I'm sure there are plenty more.
I'm guessing there are very few if any CS or IT related courses that don't include some kind of ethics class or section.
Personally - when I was growing up - with a lot of computer enthusiasts in the neighborhood - some slided one way or the other (ethics wise) and some stood fairly firmly on one side or the other (usually the "old guys").
I've been in the professional IT industry for several years - and doing semi-professional IT stuff on and off years before that. Seeing I'm still there - I hope I'm on the an acceptable side of the fence
I've been involved in a few ethics dust-ups over the years . . . never got a horrible
Anyone considered creating a liveCD with EDA tools? anything from verilog, rtl, magic, spice, board simulation & layout tools?
or maybe some combination of the above?
Seems that there are lots of other specialties that have spun their own distros - I'm surprised that the Electronics and prototyping communities have not.
I was considering giving it a shot, but time seems awful short these days.
"The only thing that is constant is change."
Heraclitus
A couple of years ago - I ran across a the BASIS project - instrumentation that was used at the Salt Lake City Olympic games, to detect possible biological attacks...
My current job is/was Systems Administration. On my own time outside of work, I started learning about aerosol science and ended up designing some instrumentation - outside my day job to detect nasty stuff that affects the Respiratory System. My employer eventually gave me what they call a "determination of rights" - so that I own all the intellectual property. There were weeks that I would spend up to 80 hours outside my day job. Kinda tough on the family though.
How serious are you about science? Whether you get a formal education or self educate and network your way into a scientific position, it'll take a bunch of work - but there is hope - people do it!
does one really need a book? check out the following three places...
www.securitydocs.com
www.sans.com/rr
www.oreilly.com (resource centers)