I believe the list is flawed, for example, a police forensic examiner may need to snoop around in a persons’ files to identify any illegal materials that may exist. Likewise the 8th commandment does not allow exceptions if attribution is given (and allowed under the associated license). Mainly these are simple omissions for exceptional circumstances, but any legal equivalent of these commandments must make mention of them lest it be consigned to the rubbish bin for being overly vague and useless. Alternatively, any computer tied into a military application is ultimately breaking the very first commandment regardless of any others.
Intellectual property rights are mentioned in the list, but more effort must be made to differentiate between strict copyright laws, copyleft laws and those that lie in between. For example, number would not allow the Linux operating system as large sections are often licensed under the General Public License and as other people can appropriate licensed materials.
I think an eleventh commandment, or perhaps just a general rule of thumb, would be to think before you click. A humorous email may sound funny to your own ears but others may take offence and it can land you in trouble. Once you’ve hit the send button there is no way to un-send that email, so think beforehand.
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