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Sam Bowne: The "hacking" word doesn't get me in as much trouble as the "ethical" term, exactly for that reason. Anonymous, for example, claims that what they're doing is ethical because they see themselves as political protesters furthering some sort of high-minded agenda. LulzSec made it very clear that they have no ethics at all and they would even tell anybody that asked them for ethical concerns "forget about us and go talk to Anonymous." But then, they seem to have attempted to make their stuff seem more politically important with hacking Murdoch and stuff. But that's not what I mean by ethics at all. I have a much simpler idea. What we do here is legal. This is business ethics, professional ethics, where you obey the law and you don't lie to people about what you can do, you don't sell them defective products. That's what I mean. Very simple, professional ethics, not the sort of metaphysical ethics where they're "making the world better," even if they're breaking the law. And that's why these "hacktivists" feel like their cause is so important it's OK to break the law. To further their cause.
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