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Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain.
A person who is corrupt is or has been spiritually or morally impure, or is acting/has acted illegally. By extension, the term is applied to a document, database or program being made unreliable by errors or alterations. Corrupt may also refer to: Corrupt, an Italian thriller film; Corrupt, an American crime film
If a virus or trojan with this payload method manages to alter files critical to the running of the computer's operating system software or physical hardware, the entire system may be rendered unusable. Some programs can give a suggestion to repair the file automatically (after the error), and some programs cannot repair it.
As of 2025, the United States scores 65 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean") according to Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index. When ranked by score, the United States ranks 28th among the 180 countries in the index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.
The law tells me that obscenity may deprave and corrupt, but as far as I know, it offers no definition of depravity or corruption. Proponents have sought to justify it using different rationales for various types of information censored: Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are obscene or
Fasād (Arabic: فساد /fa.saːd/), or fasaad, is an Arabic word meaning 'rottenness', 'corruption', or 'depravity'. [1] In an Islamic context, it can refer to "spreading corruption on Earth" or "spreading mischief in a Muslim land", [2] moral corruption against Allah, [3] or disturbance of the public peace.
The claim: Author George Orwell said 'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices'
Scrupulosity is the pathological guilt and anxiety about moral issues. Although it can affect nonreligious people, it is usually related to religious beliefs. It is personally distressing, dysfunctional, and often accompanied by significant impairment in social functioning.