--Originally published at Computer Security
If you look for a definition to evil, the concept refers to an inclination to do evil things, not very educational right? Well evil is the antonym of good, and you can’t go deeper than that, being evil means you don’t have any good. In example an object, lets say a stone, we can describe it like hard, or by its shape and color but we can’t define it like good or bad because it doesn’t have intention, but someone can take the stone and hit people with it; same happens with software, the code by itself doesn’t represent any harm to people, but people themselves decide what to do with it. Every single person has an ethical conscience which tell us the way to act through life situations.
There are mystical people with an ethical conscience which impulse them to safeguard the web, I called them security apostles but the name is hacker. Well, in some cases they look for money and recognition but they’re still doing good, OK? Humans are humans (non perfects beings). The term hacker in some cases is related to criminals -blame the media- but at the begging of computer science, the word hacker was used to describe a person with a creative passion and who loves to learn from others. There exists the hacker ethics, described as the belief that sharing information is a powerful positive good, and the hackers’ ethical obligation is to share their knowledge through free code, grant the access to information and computational resources as far as possible. Also, it establishes that the cracking of systems is ethically correct while the hacker doesn’t commit theft, vandalism or violates confidentiality.
The hacker’s ethics principles take credit thanks to the actions of hackers themselves, most of them look for sharing their
