Week 13: Clear

This was one of more interesting lectures. It talked about what is the right way to use a computer. Or in other words the lawful way to use the computer and the information shared on the internet. A lot of us think since there is so much information available on the internet we are free to use without giving credit to the rightful owner. Well thats not how it works. We have to give them credit. Other wise we are ethically wrong and are totally working against privacy. I also liked the part about why people create viruses and worms. I never really understood why they did it.



Computer security is a branch of computer technology known as information security as applied to computers and networks. The objective of computer security includes protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster, while allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users. The terms computer system security, means the collective processes and mechanisms by which sensitive and valuable information and services are protected from publication, tampering or collapse by unauthorized activities or untrustworthy individuals and unplanned events respectively.

Ethics, in the classical sense, refers to the rules and standards governing the conduct of an individual with others. As technology and computers became more and more a part of our everyday lives, we must understand that the problems that have always plagued business and conduct will continue to be a problem. In fact, a new medium can provide even more difficult questions of judgement. In other words, since the introduction of the World Wide Web, the definition of ethics has evolved, too. A new type of ethics known as computer ethics has emerged. Computer ethics is concerned with standards of conduct as they pertain to computers.



Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive.

http://privacy.org/
http://library.thinkquest.org/26658/
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/02-fall/internet.html