Then you're in a very slim minority - if you drive, that is.- Have you ever exceeded 20 mph above the speed limit? If so, does that make you incapable of driving a big rig truck? If so, I think we should probably be very wary of our use of the roads. It's much more difficult to get a commercial license if you've been caught speeding, but no one ever said it was impossible.
Funnily enough. No. I haven't.
You point would be accurate if there were no penalties, but there are other penalties. Your point here is far too simplistic to be accurate.
Popping back to the speeding example above. If you get caught doing 20
mph above the speed limit, you are liable to lose you license (in this
country) unless you can come up with a really good reason. And: my job
depends on being able to drive usually isn't good enough. And even if
you don't lose the license, you gain penalties, which can accumulate
into lost of the privilage to drive.
So there is a difference between being caught for speeding. Get caught
doign the proverbial 20mph above on a computer, you penalty is:
Getting offered a job, and still being allowed to use a computer. To do
what ever you want.
That, at least, is what I see from this, and others like this.
Yeah, but is that really what he was hired to do?
Nope, I don't scoff at this. However, I have yet to see a job advertised: Professinal Virus Programmer, or with a job description of exploiting flaws in computers to compromise them againist thier owners will. * So he has a speciality that isn't really in demand.
Ahh - but he's not being hired by the company to be a virus/worm writer, is he?
<cynic>Hmm, yes. Thats actually a good idea. Since he is already known
to those whose job it is to investigate and catch criminals, they may
find things eassier</cynic>
Hmm, so the armed robber should be allowed, as part of his
rehabilitation, to become gainfully employed as...? Well, what ever he
could become gainfully employed as, it won't be as an armed robber.
Theres nothing to stop him from becoming gainfully employed as, say, a
builder. Or even a dustman, which is actually quite and important job.
That says nothing about how he'd be doing his work.<> Ok, he's working as a a trainee software developer working on security products. Hows that?
How is that unethical?<>
Not at all. It's unethical, not because he has that job. It's unethical because securepoint wrote to him and invited him to apply. Thats the unethical part. I have no problem with him applying for jobs, as a programmer, or pentester, whatever. The unethical part is a firm that specialises in security invites a known virus writer to write software for them.
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