[lug] I'm amazed (Lou Puls)

[Lou Puls]

> 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