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Marcus Aurelius: Conflicted About Ethics, Secrecy, & the Public Interest

COMMENTS: 1.  This is one of more internally contradictory pieces I can remember reading; 2.  Mark Bowden certainly knows a thing or three about perpetuating compromise of classified information since he’s done bunch of it; 3.  Bowden harkens back to old saying, “.. there are good secrets, there are bad secrets, and there are non-secrets …

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Berto Jongman: Duke Conference on Law, Ethics, & National Security — Multiple Short Videos of Key Speakers

Duke University Law School’s Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) Conference By Ritika Singh Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 4:52 PM Duke Law School held its annual LENS conference over the weekend. Its theme this year was “Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law.” Here is the conference program, and below …

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Berto Jongman: Coding Freedom – Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Recommended reading. An anthropologist explains how hackers are changing the definition of freedom David Hutchinson Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking, by E. Gabriella Coleman, dives into the ocean of software hacking: its culture, personalities, and craft. But it’s also a legal history of hacking (modifying code) and cracking (illegally modifying code). Working …

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Worth a Look: Information Ethics

The Field Contributions to the field can be submitted for publication in the: International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) This presentation is divided into three chapters: Foundations Historical Aspects Systematic Aspects 1. Foundations Introduction 1.1 Information Ethics as Applied Ethics 1.2 Information Ethics as a Descriptive and Emancipatory Theory 1.3 Ethics for Information Specialists See: …

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Review: The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles

Rodrique Tremblay 5.0 out of 5 stars Humanist Manifesto Slams Religions, Foundation for Reflection, December 22, 2012 I bought this book on the recommendation of Pierre Cloutier in Quebec, and very deliberately as the first book to read on 22 December 2012 as Epoch B begins (see graphic above with book cover). Across the entire …

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Search: leadership ethics + RECAP

ROBERT STEELE:  “Intelligence without integrity is not intelligence.”  For some time now the following post, recently re-titled, has been the primary outcome of the frequent searches for the word “integrity.” 2010 Robert Steele: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP Leadership ethics is a two part challenge.  Bosses are not leaders, merely slave-drivers, and often …

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