[lug] I'm amazed (Lou Puls)

[Paul E Condon]

On 20091017_000016, Lou Puls wrote:
> > On 20091016_074910, Kenneth D. Weinert wrote:
> >>
> I'm taking some Security Awareness training module here at work which
> actually contains the following statement:
> >>
> The term hacking should not be synonymous with illegal or immoral
> activities. To hack a system is simply to modify it (legally or
> illegally.)
> >>
> >
> It's a good start, but note that they leave open the possibility the
> hacking is 'immoral'. For some security experts I suppose that hacking
> is an alternative life-style, analogous to gay marriage.
>  --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon at mesanetworks.net
> >
> 
> Or heretical in some religionist sense, hence eeevil.  If it is not
> illegal, the gray area is "unethical" in any secular, common-sense
> viewpoint.  I surely do hope religionism is kept out of digital
> security -- its intrusion in politics and the military generates
> enough trouble.
> 
> Lou
> lou.puls at gmail.com
> -- 
> "Life is complex -- partially because it has a real part and an imaginary part."
> ~Anon

Well said. Both your comment on my comment, and your tag line ;-)

-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net