Looking for perspectives about the above. On my meanderings around the web I’ve found cybersecurity is all the rage now, cybersecurity experts are desperately needed. Looks a bit like a protection scheme to me - first have everyone save their data in the cloud and buy a smart fridge, then flood everything with ethical hacking courses and cybersecurity certifications.

Reminds me of my marketing translation days working on copy where you always were supposed to outpace your competitors by using some [insert software here]-as-a-service solution to ‘compete in an increasingly fast-paced business environment’. Yay rat race.

On the other hand, as to cybersecurity experts, we will need smart people who can re-stupidify our smart appliances when they go rogue.

What would you consider ethical work within IT? Now and in a brighter future?

  • schmorpOPM
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    5 months ago

    I guess it depends who or what you make things work for - a small group of clients or a faceless multinational that does who knows what on a global scale.

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      5 months ago

      Two places I worked were companies but they were not multinational and were b2b and im not concerned about the product we made or anything.

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        5 months ago

        I’ve worked for smallish companies that did serve multinationals. I ended up doing a potentially honest freelancing job feeling like a dirty scam artist. And I still find it hard to avoid multinationals, they seem to have encroached everything.

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          companies that buy our product are sometimes multinational but I don’t really see how it can be used for something nefarious.