Ethics and The Internet
The IAB's 1989 RFC "Ethics and the Internet" strongly endorses the view of the Division Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation Division of Network, Communications, Research and Infrastructure which, in paraphrase, characterized as unethical and unacceptable any activity which purposely:
- seeks to gain unauthorized access to the resources of the Internet,
- disrupts the intended use of the Internet,
- wastes resources (people, capacity, computer) through such actions,
- destroys the integrity of computer-based information
- compromises the privacy of users.
Read more about this topic: Internet Architecture Board, RFC1087
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“The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)