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Solarpunk ethical work within IT? (self.permacomputing)

submitted 10 months ago by schmorpel to c/permacomputing

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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?

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have been fine with my work. Sys admin generalist initially and sorta fell into monitoring specialist. My monitoring work is internal though for ticketing purposes so no ethical issue that I see. My job has always been to make things work and fix them if they stop working.

[–] schmorpel 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] schmorpel 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

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