Ethics in Security Testing
This paper discusses the similarities and differences between professional ethics in the information security industry and ethics in the hacker community. Sources of conflict and shared values of the two are discussed in order to find some reconciliation and come to an understanding of how a shared set of ethics is possible. A reconciled set of ethics allows hackers to function within the corporate world without compromising their principles and allows the commercial world to benefit from some of the more progressive ideas within the hacker community.