Comment Ethics? (Score 1) 466
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" . . .
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 end of the stick, but did get slapped around with one intellectual property dispute once - still feeling it (parts of my IP have been hijacked - not the first time it's happened to a person, not the last).
This would be a more interesting topic to write about I'd think . . . The "dust up's" rather than the "right and wrong". Might be hard to find good info on those though.
amrobot
"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 end of the stick, but did get slapped around with one intellectual property dispute once - still feeling it (parts of my IP have been hijacked - not the first time it's happened to a person, not the last).
This would be a more interesting topic to write about I'd think . . . The "dust up's" rather than the "right and wrong". Might be hard to find good info on those though.
amrobot
