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It's morally wrong. You don't suddenly have the right to use someone else's personal belongings as you see fit just because they left a door or window unlocked
by cliffy 8y ago
It's morally wrong.
You don't suddenly have the right to use someone else's personal belongings as you see fit just because they left a door or window unlocked.
- rubatuga 8y agoWhat if the router was being unused? What if the power usage was minimal? I think it is unethical not to utilize resources that are being wasted.
- dymk 8y agoI hope your parents taught you to ask before invading somebody's personal property. Are you okay with XYZ Tech Company snooping on your private messages, emails, or credit card transactions? The impact that you'd see would be minimal (aside from more targeted ads, perhaps), and it's data which would otherwise be "wasted" if nobody was mining it.
- rubatuga 8y agoI hope your parents taught you that too, thanks. Anyways, no its not okay for XYZ because they are invading the privacy of people's lives as a means to make more money. In the other circumstance, you would be using unused resources, not invading privacy, and contributing to projects such as Folding@home, which hopes to solve hard protein folding problems in order to better humanity.
- matz1 8y agoThis appeal to morality is useless. ok its wrong to you but doesn't mean it wrong to me.