A question of ethics

ffreeloader · Sep 15, 2006

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I found the article from of which I took the name for this thread, which the following excerpt is taken, today on the securityfocus.com site. Scot Granneman gives a scathing revue of the common practices we see in not only IT security companies, but in IT businesses at large. I think he's right on the money.

You can read the rest of this article here.

Joel and Ethan Coen make some of the most inventive and clever movies in Hollywood history. With a record like Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski, how could anyone argue? One of their absolute best, however, has got to be Miller's Crossing (1990), a gangster film filled with betrayals, violence, and a wonderful slang that is a joy to hear. When the movie opens, we hear what sounds like a tough man ranting in a 1920s gangster accent (you know the kind I mean). The character, voiced by the great character actor Jon Polito, is the vicious gangster Johnny Caspar, and he's complaining vociferously to Irish mob boss Leo O'Bannon:

I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell, Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics. You know I'm a sporting man. I like to make the occasional bet. But I ain't that sporting. When I fix a fight, say - if I pay a three-to-one favorite to throw a goddamn fight - I figure I got a right to expect that fight to go off at three-to-one. But every time I lay a bet with this sonofabitch Bernie Bernheim, before I know it the odds is even up - or worse, I'm betting the short money. ... He's selling the information I fixed the fight. Out-of-town money comes pourin' in. The odds go straight to hell. ... The point is, Bernie ain't satisfied with the honest dollar he can make off the vig. He ain't satisfied with the business I do on his book. He's sellin' tips on how I bet, and that means part of the payoff that should be ridin' on my hip is ridin' on someone else's. ... It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return you gotta go bettin' on chance, and then you're back with anarchy. Right back inna jungle. On account of the breakdown of ethics. That's why ethics is important. It's the grease makes us get along, what separates us from the animals, beasts a burden, beasts a prey. Ethics. Whereas Bernie Bernheim is a horse of a different color ethics-wise. As in, he ain't got any. He's stealin' from me plain and simple.

Yes, Johnny Caspar is correct: "ethics is important." And it is especially important when it comes to computer security.
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Bluerinse · Sep 15, 2006

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Great article Freddy - Thanks for posting it!

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