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The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics


    
        1. Thou Shalt Not Use a Computer to Harm Other People.
        2. Thou Shalt Not Interfere with Other people's Computer Work.
        3. Thou Shalt Not Snoop Around in Other People's Computer Files.
        4. Thou Shalt Not Use a Computer to Steal.
        5. Thou Shalt Not Use a Computer to Bear False Witness.
        6. Thou Shalt Not Copy or Use proprietary Software for Which You 
           Have Not Paid.
        7. Thou Shalt Not Use Other People's Computer Resources Without 
           Authorization or Proper Compensation.
        8. Thou Shalt Not Appropriate Other People's Intellectual Output.
        9. Thou Shalt Think About the Social Consequences of the Program 
           You Are Writing or the System you Are Designing.
       10. Thou Shalt Always Use a Computer in Ways That Ensure Consideration 
           and Respect for Your Fellow Humans.
    
   Dr. Ramon C. Barquin, "In Pursuit of a 'Ten Commandments' for Computer Ethics",
   [on-line] http://www.brook.edu/its/cei/cei_hp.htm, May 7, 1992