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> This is obviously not the case. It really is though. People just don't understand the ethics of white hat hacking. > Suppose you suspect the company could be using a default admin password Putting in that password on a system you don't own without any sort of permission to do so is very clearly against the law. You are accessing the system without permission. You just walk away if you want to be ethical about it. T…
> People just don't understand the ethics of white hat hacking. People just think they understand ethics, even if they don't. "Don't break the law" is an incredibly poor foundation. Many laws are ill-conceived, ambiguous, overly broad and widely ignored or manifestly unjust. Using this as the basis for ethical behavior would require you to be unreasonably conservative and pedantic while regarding complicity in an inj…
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#511I mean, I am a literal expert in this field what do I know. I will just state I have read the relevant laws and feel I have a good understanding of what underpins the ethics of this industry and white hat hacking after almost 2 decades immersed in it. You are mixing up morals with ethics. With ethics we have clear and unambiguous lines. Morals, that’s on you more or less.