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Ethics of a Real Patriot Sam Kash Network Administration 1

According to my Mother, who is the reason I am who I am, (Krochak, 2012)Everyone is going to be a good individual. Except that is not always the case. Everyone runs their lives by their own ethics laws, their own Code of Morality. The definition of Ethics, according to the Encarta Dictionary (Ethics,Para.1) The body of moral principles or values governing or distinctive of a particular person or group. My Mothers statement is not always the case for the Human Race. I base my Ethics and my own personal moral code on my early childhood background. In my early years, I attended a private Jewish Day School. We were taught how to respect and treat each other with high standards. My Mother held me to these same high standards, she would consistently take away my electronic devices because I would make up stories and lie. I love working with computers and being on electronic devices, so I learned how to respect her rules so I can keep my personal devices. In our age computers play a big role in gathering personal data, and sometimes people lose their moral compass and use that data for corrupt purposes. According to Michael McFarland, (Michael McFarland) The mass of seemingly innocent details, an enterprising sleuth can assemble a revealing portrait of a person and his or her activities; phone records can disclose a person's movements, friends, associates, business dealings, preferences and perversions. What he is saying is that, some of our fellow human society members are becoming Black Hats. Using personal data, for immoral reasons, selling the information to 3rd party source is a huge business for the Black Hats. The hacking group, Anonymous, is a Black Hat group that hacked into corporations and different government and stole information and posted this information on websites so everyone could read up on classified information.

Patriotism. People call themselves patriots because they did something to protect our country. The real definition of being a patriot is as follows: a proud supporter or defender of his or her country and its way of life (Encarta Dictionary). Many Americans are real patriots, these real patriots defend our country even in the face of death its self. Flight 93, was a the plane that could have crashed into our White House or even the Capitol. According to Kvamme, E. Floyd, (Kvamme, 2001); The decision required bravery, patriotism, and ethical judgment. Before this war reaches its conclusion, any of us may be called upon to react similarly and required to respond, Lets go! George Washington once wrote, Once we appreciate how our own wellbeing, prosperity, and liberties are all the products of living in this countryas opposed to any otherwe will become natural patriots. Anonymous, the America based hacking group, is rampaging our government with continuous attacks on banks and Federal Agencies. As Barrett Brown told Michael Isikoff, (Brown, 2011) Our people break laws, just like all people break laws, he added. When we break laws, we do it in the service of civil disobedience. We do so ethically. We do it against targets that have asked for it. The group considers themselves to be the sheriffs in the internet wild west. Its a guerrilla cyber war thats what I call it, (Brown, 2011). These hackers are not real patriots. When a person turns on his own country because the country asked for it, this shows that their ethical compasses are all over the map, not pointing the correct way. There are only so many White Hats in our government, they can only hold so much ground on their own for protecting our government from Black Hat hackers. As the field of computer security grows. The workforce for White Hats will also increase. The choice is to the current generation of college and high school students alike. Risk it all to prove a point and possibly come to be arrested for hacking, by becoming a Black Hat. Or fight for the good of the

country as a White Hat and defend the future generations of this country. Every person has a choice to pick a side and fight for the future of America, or for their particular home country. Only time will be able to tell which side will grow as the popular contender.

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