Introduction to Computer Science

Assignment – Computer Ethics
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A way of dealing with new ethical issues is to take a traditionalist approach. This involves identifying a moral norm and principles on which the issue is based, then apply them to the new situation. Please answer following questions about computer ethics.

A. E-mail is one technology that has an equivalence that one can consider applying the traditionalist approach on.

1. Identify the issues that might be of concern to e-mails include confidentiality (communication is private) and authentication (sender is who he or she claim to be).
2. How does traditional snail-mail deal with such issues? Are there any issues that does not have a snail-mail equivalence? Concerning these issues, what is it about e-mail that make it differ from snail-mail? (If you cannot think of anything, you can also start by first identifying the difference between e-mail and snail-mail, and then go on to say how each factor can raise new issues that were not applicable to snail-mails)

B. Compare and contrast the difference between a hacker breaking into a computer system and a thief breaking into a house.

1. Is this a reasonable comparison? Is it a good analogy to employ while considering the issue of hacking?
2. Consider a scenario where a person walks down a street trying each door. If he founds and unlocked door he goes in and looks around. Is this situation analogous to a hacker scanning ports on a computer and find an opened port and goes in a look around and take a few things?
3. Consider that in computer terms, some ports are considered public ports (for example, port 80 where web pages are served from). For example, is it reasonable to assume that if port 80 is available, the owner of the site gives you permission to access the site?
4. In some culture, a public water well or tap, is considered to be freely available to all that come passed. Should publicly accessible wireless signal falls under the same category?

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