It is the responsibility of everyone in the office to up holds these
ethics.  When you are in the office or when you are using SIPB
resources you are a part of SIPB, therefor your actions reflect on
SIPB as much as they do any individual.

	1. The SIPB does not condone any act which compromises the privacy or
security of an individual or a group.  This includes, reading or
divulging private information without that party's consent, gain
privilege or accesses, through any means, which you are not
explicitly given, or actions which may do any of the above (like
packet sniffing) in such a way which does not try to preserve security
or privacy.  (for instance, a person may need to look at the network
traffic for purposes of debugging some system, but they can do so in
a way which only shows the relevant packets to the system in question
and does not compromise personal privacy or security.)

	2. The SIPB does not condone software piracy.  Software which has not
been legal obtained should not be use, distributed, obtained or reside
on SIPB resources.

	3. SIPB will uphold the Athena rules of use.  The SIPB office
has a different set of rules than the cluster, but in any area where
the rule of use applies to actions not involving the cluster machines
or cluster etiquette, the SIPB must also follow those rules. (for
instance, you are allowed to eat and leave benevolent programs, with
SIPB's permission, running on workstations, but you should not <insert
example here>.

	4. The SIPB does not condone any action which is both not benevolent
and irreversible.  Any action which directly affect another person
requires that that person be contacted. (no, throwing out someone's
food that they left in the fridge or in the office does not fall under
this rule, throw it out! they are slobs!)  It's a good idea to also
inform people about benevolent changes as well, since people don't
always share the same level of understanding.

	5. Sipb does not condone any action which might harm a person of
property of a person or group. This includes SIPB's property and
individuals personal files and Athena account.  (this is trying to
cover everything from don't throw the office rock, to don't delete
someone's thesis.)  Remember that emotional damage is also harm. 
	
	6. Don't abuse your own privileges to harm others. 

This document is not intended to stifle jokes and hacks, but tries to
give a clearer picture of what SIPB expects of it's members and
prospectives.  Always remember what you find funny may not be funny to
the person the joke is being played on or IS.  Also remember that when
you are using SIPB resources your actions reflect on SIPB as well as
yourself.

Also be reminded that lack of responsibility for a hack or joke
increases it's malevolence.  Anonymity, in the context of the SIPB, is
also a good way to make a joke less funny.  Also if you don't know the
person who you are performing the joke on well enough to say "it was
me, I'm sorry that you didn't find it as funny as I thought" then you
don't know them well enough to perform a joke.  If you are performing
a joke to be hateful or spiteful, then you are no longer being funny
and the joke is no longer a joke and is instead an attack and a breach
of these rules.

If you find that one of your actions is unethical by the terms of this
document or other understood ethics please talk to the chairman of
SIPB or some other trusted SIPB official.  Mistakes, bad judgment and
misunderstandings do happen, but they are only made worse by not
clarify your motives for your actions.  SIPB takes it's trust very
seriously.  If you have done an action that makes SIPB as a whole
question that trust, we want to start to rebuild that trust, not to
punish.  If the affected people can talk to you and discover your
motives and maybe correct your understanding of why your actions were
harmful, then we can return to trust the SIPB as a whole and possibly
you, if it was just a misunderstanding.