Internet Hackers, Crackers, Hacking

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Internet Hackers, Crackers, Hacking
The IAB strongly endorses the view of the Division Advisory Panel
of the National Science Foundation Division of Network,
Communications Research and Infrastructure which, in paraphrase,
characterized as unethical and unacceptable any activity which
purposely:

(a) seeks to gain unauthorized access to the resources of the
Internet,
(b) disrupts the intended use of the Internet,
(c) wastes resources (people, capacity, computer) through such
actions,
(d) destroys the integrity of computer-based information, and/or
(e) compromises the privacy of users.
Internet Activities Board, Ethics and the Internet, RFC 1087,
January 1989.