Article - Sweden To Australia | Hiring Hackers
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Added on 2019-10-09
Article - Sweden To Australia | Hiring Hackers
Added on 2019-10-09
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Rent-a-hacker site leaks Australian buyers' names and addressesThe given article highlights the incident of hackers being hired by different people from Swedento Australia for a variety of purposes. The purpose of that hiring were legal and illegal as well, atleast on the face of it. However, the actual embarrassment began when it was discovered that thehacking job description was linked to the personal information of the clients and because of thattheir identification was disclosed. The question that arises here is whether the hacking per se iscompletely moral and unethical or could it be serving any rightful purpose at the end?This particular incident, like any other act, could be seen from different perspectives dependingon what one wants to look at it. Let us analyze it from the perspective of the theory ofconsequentialism and deontology. It is one’s own discretion what decision is he going to makeirrespective of the rightness or wrongness of it. As per my own opinion, hacking in itself ismorally wrong as it is a deliberate act of destroying something that has been created by someoneor stealing an information that could be extremely crucial for a particular person. In relation tothis Immanuel Kant believed that the moral and ethical values are the guiding posts in dailydecision making. The deontological theory of ethics states that the morality of any action adheresto the closest degrees of rules or duties (Alexander & Moore, 2007). In other words,deontological approach is essentially the rule based ethics because the rules bind any person tohis/her duty. In the present scenario, the Australian buyers asked the hackers to find out for themwhether their spouses were cheating on them. They might have taken such a decision out offrustration because they couldn’t have found any other means to find out about it. However, suchan action on their part, according to me, was ethically wrong because this act of taking a hacker’shelp in itself is a cheating as it is immoral to try to get illegal access to someone else’s account.As we know, according to Kant, the wrongness or rightness depends upon the commitment
towards duty not on the consequences of the actions. Kant further goes on to suggest that if aperson decides something and performs the action based on that decision, then it is also verycrucial to understand that would they like the other person to act in a likewise manner. Whethersomething good results out of that action would still not justify the deviation from the path ofmorality if it wasn’t done as per the rules and duties. So, in the ambit of deontological morality,such a person would always like to abstain from taking such actions. If a person wants to know the inside information business strategies and customer database of hisrival and employs a hacker to do this job for him, then again he is not going according to theuniversal laws of morality because it is not done following the rules and duty (Spafford, 1992).So, the moot point that is to be made over here is that any form of hacking whether it is done inorder to bring out some relevant or important information, is still be considered an immoral andunethical act. It may bring about some positive results to a particular person or anythingsubstantial for the society at large, but the fact that it has not been done by following therequisite principles of duty and rules, it will always be considered as an immoral act.The other theory with which the above hacking incident could be understood in a differentperspective is the Consequentialist theory of morality. The theory states that any action is ethicalor moral is based on the consequences of that action as every action has consequences. It is theconsequence that makes a clear distinction about the rightness or wrongness of an action. In plainand simple words we can say that the end justifies the means (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2003). Now, inrelation to the hacking incident, there is a clear dichotomy that emerges at this point. As perconsequentialism, hacking is something irrespective of whether it is guided by the moralprinciples or not, it will be considered wrong whenever it is intended to hurt someone because bythe very act of hacking, there could be grave consequences for a person’s life or for the system as
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