38C3: Illegal Instructions

Re:38C3: Illegal Instructions by luckylion on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:19PM (#42542179)

I agree that it's unethical, my point was that it's easy to say that it is the price for innovation and in the end if the innovation is large enough, the unethical action is fine ("they solved world hunger and brought us world peace, and you complain about a little bit of initial price gouging?"), and who knows what good intention they might have (probably none, but it's good PR to pretend).

Do you consider 'hacker' to be tied to some ethical concept? Makes it a difficult definition to work with because you and I will draw the line of "justified by the intentions" (e.g. invading privacy of 1, 100, 1m to draw attention to some big issue) in a different place, and on top of that a hacker will stop being a hacker when they overstep the line?

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Re:38C3: Illegal Instructions by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:20PM (#42542196)

The below resources touch on some ethical considerations, but are certainly not all inclusive. It is, imho, a living concept and dynamic. Are there good or bad Hackers? Or Hackers (and how their brain operates) just humans who do good or bad things? Do you stop thinking and being such a way when you cross a line?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic#The_hacker_ethics

https://archive.org/details/TheHackerEthicAndTheSpiritOfTheI...

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Re:38C3: Illegal Instructions by luckylion on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:00PM (#42552353)

Yes, I'm aware of these, but to me that's not a requirement of being "a hacker" (not that I've ever heard anyone discuss whether someone is a hacker). I've always understood that to be more of a "with great power comes great responsibility" thing that suggests some ideas you can use to figure out your position on the moral value of something (but explicitly not as in "you must adopt this line of thinking or you're not one of us").

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