Etica hacker?
Hacker Ethics?
Abstract [ita]
Negli anni in cui si sviluppano le tecnologie digitali, sorgono gruppi di persone che si definiscono hacker. Oggi il termine hacker viene utilizzato per identificare persone collegate alle tecnologie digitali con significati diversi.
Quando gli hacker interagiscono e formano un gruppo sociale, si organizzano intorno a valori etici: l’etica sociale di quel gruppo. Ci si domanda se esista un modo univoco di intendere l’espressione “etica hacker” come elemento caratterizzante i sistemi sociali, tecnologici e culturali che fanno riferimento al termine hacker. Si osserva come esistano diversi modi di intendere l’etica hacker e come le radici dei valori etici dei gruppi di hacker, a volte, dipendono da caratteristiche antropologiche e da fenomeni culturali profondamente radicati nella nostra storia e più antichi dell’hacking tecnologico.
Abstract [eng]
As digital technologies developed, groups of people calling themselves hackers arose. Today the term hacker is used to identify people connected to digital technologies with different meanings.
When hackers interact and form a social group, they organize themselves around ethical values: the social ethics of that group. The question is whether there is only one way of understanding the expression “hacker ethics” as a characterizing element of the social, technological and cultural systems that refer to the term hacker. It is observed that there are different ways of understanding hacker ethics and that the roots of the ethical values of hacker groups sometimes depend on anthropological characteristics and cultural phenomena deeply rooted in our history and more ancient than technological hacking.
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