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List:       best-of-security
Subject:    Re: BOS: Early Review of the movie "Hackers" -Reply
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1995-09-12 22:34:37
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> > I didn't mean to imply that those without CISSP did not have
> > ethics.  Certainly ISSA and other organizations expect their
> > members to follow a code of ethics (requirement for membership in
> > ISSA).  CISSP has the same requirement.  I suppose that you
> > could actually be uncertified, unprofessional and even uncouth,
> > but yet be ethical.
> 
> If one is ethical, one will have no problem agreeing to follow a code
> of ethics. If one is unethical, one will also have no problem agreeing
> to follow a code of ethics. That an organization expects their members
> to follow a code of ethics does not, by itself, tell you anything about
> the ethics of those members. If the organization enforces it, then this
> will tell you at best that it hasn't yet caught any of the current
> members in anything bad enough to expell them. And that someone is not a
> member of an organization does not tell you anything about their ethics,
> either, unless there are overwhelming reasons for such membership.

Can we please not have this low level discussion on BoS please. Take it to
email.

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