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Session 4 solution
Q1. What are identity theft, Phishing, pharming, adware, keylogging & DDOS..?
How can you protect yourself from some of these?
Please read the postings and book. Good answers are posted.
Q2. Social networking sites like (youtube, facebook, etc..) are becoming massive 24/7 information sharing
medium. This has some negative consequences, for example
friends videotaping and posting the information on youtube has led to suicides, Rutgers example, student
posting their thesis online Duke student's thesis example.
Discuss the ethics of information sharing by applying figure 8.1/229 and concepts of information sharing
with responsibility (page 85)
All six principles can be studied as follows.
considerations
Consequence
Society’s opinion
Likelihood of effect
Time to
Consequence
Relatedness
Reach of Result
Extreme harm as is evidenced by the death of
subjects in the videos. In general, it could have
unintended serious consequences resulting in
privacy violation and harm to individuals.
In general, society will not like privacy violation
Probability is high..that action could result in
personal harm
Instant due to the nature of the Internet
Typically, it is somebody known
At least the subject, in addition their family and
friends. if the posting includes other people, it will
harm them also
It appears to be serious ethical violation to post information sharing on social networking sites when the
consequences can be lethal and harmful and it is shared without the consent of the subject.
some interesting postings from the CONFERENCE:
The sharing of information can range on a scale of ethicality (like that on page 229). It fall anywhere from
minor to very serious and each person who makes those posts on those websites has to make that call
for themselves, When it comes to publicizing information, you have to ask yourself how upset you would
be if someone were to post information about you for everyone to see. Would they be hurt? Mad?
Amused? I think that may be a good way to judge the ethics involved with these social networking
sites….try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and see how it would feel if you were being
victimized. Everyone needs to be responsible enough to know what’s right and what’s wrong. And if you
can’t be your own judge then you probably shouldn’t be using these sites…or the internet at all for that
matter.
Not a whole lot needs to be said reguarding the tragedy's that have resulting the postings on Facebook
and Youtube. I never used Facebook nor Youtube so I lack much knowledge for this discussion. In
regards to netiquette on the two website's, you just have to watch what you post. Things that are
humorous to some may be very disturbing to others. Always revise your posts with your emotional wellbeing and say to yourself "is this appropriate?" "Will this effect my job at work, or perhaps get me fired?"
"Is this embarrassing to myself and my family?" "Will this ruin reputations of others?"....What it all boils
down to is please use your best common sense!
Q3 read book and forum
Q4. making a replica…..(see fig 4.4/p94)
Taking office property can not be justified both on legal or ethical grounds. This violates the both
principles. It violates all principles and creates bad consequences for everybody.
Every decision making situation has at least two dimensions.. ETHICS and LEGAL
LEGAL
ILLLEGAL
Ethics
X
Unethical
XX
Within this frame of reference, we would place taking furniture and office supplies as both illegal and
unethical (XX)
However, if the employee is involved in telecommuting and is authorized by employer to take property at
home then it would be both ethical and legal, if it used for office work only.
Within this frame of reference, we would place taking furniture and office supplies as both legal and
ethical (X)