lesson 5

• Social issues


  Problems or matters which have an INFLUENCE over a LARGE POPULATION
• Causes of social issues

  • Geographical Reasons
  • Education Reasons
  • Economical Reasons
  • Political Reasons
• Ethical issues


  Instances where people go AGAINST accepted behavioral pattern
• Four big areas of computer ethics

  • Computer crime
  • Responsibility for computer failure
  • Protection of computer property, records, and software
  • Privacy of the company, workers, and customers
• Computer Crime


  Intellectual, white-collar crime committed by those intelligent enough to MANIPULATE COMPUTER SYSTEM and in a position to access it
• Hacking


  Any computer-related activity which is NOT sanctioned or APPROVED of by an employer or owner of a system or network
• Privacy


  The computer's capacity to store, organized, and exchange records
• Invasion of privacy


  The intrusion into the personal life of another, without just cause
• Hacking


  Unauthorized intrusion into computer account, system or a network
• Security


  Protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data
• Confidentiality


  Ensuring that data or information are not disclosed to unauthorized person, persons or party
• Integrity


  Protecting data or information against unauthorized alteration
• Availability


  An assurance that data can be accessed readily by authorized person, persons or party or those with permission to obtain the data or information
• Copyright infringement


  Unauthorized or prohibited use of works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights
• Copyright


  A form of protection that covers the field of creative work both fiction and non fiction
• Patent


  Protects inventions, processes, devices or methods from being copied
• Virus / Computer virus


  A type of malicious software (malware) that replicates by inserting copies of itself into other computer programs, data file, or the boot sector or the hard drive
• Types of computer viruses

  • Boot sector virus
  • Web scripting virus
  • Browser hijacker
  • Resident virus
  • Polymorphic virus
  • File infector virus
  • Multipartite virus
  • Macro virus
• Unfair competition


  A branch of intellectual property law, applied to all dishonest or fraudulent rivalry in trade and commerce
• Theft / Identity theft


  The taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it