COMPUTER

ETHICS
• DEFINE COMPUTER ETHICS.
• STATE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF COMPUTER ETHICS WRITTEN BY DR. R.C.
BARQUIN.
• GIVE SOME ETHICAL ISSUES IN COMPUTING
What are the rules is
using computers?
What is computer
ethics?
 Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics

1) Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people:

2) Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work:
3) Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's files:
4) Thou shalt not use a computer to steal:
5) Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness:
6) Thou shalt not use or copy software for which you have not paid:
7) Thou shalt not use other people's computer resources without
authorization:
8) Thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output:
9) Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you
write:
10) Thou shalt use a computer in ways that show consideration and
respect:
Anonymous ➢ refers to names, identities, and/or sources that are not made
Known

Hacker ➢ someone who finds ways to defeat computer security

measures, or go around them

Script kiddie ➢ immature crackers who reuse scripts and programs developed
by other hackers to break through security systems on the
Internet

Hacktivist ➢ people who hack into computer systems or networks for

political or social reasons
Web defacer ➢ people who access websites with poor
security controls and
manipulate their contents

Cracker ➢ a term first used by hackers in the mid-1980s

to refer to other
hackers who have malicious or criminal intentions

Warez ➢ cracked software

Pirates ➢ those who copy or distribute copyrighted software illegally

Soft lifting ➢ sharing a software program with friends, relatives, or any

other
Person

Hard-disk loading ➢ when computer hardware retailers bundle

unauthorized copies
of software with their computer systems to entice buyers

Troll- someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages

in an online community with the primary intent of provoking other users into
an emotional response of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
 Computers can be used for both good and bad.
Computer ethics—the sense of what is right and
what is wrong in terms of computer use, was
important as early as the 1940s. By 1992, a ten-
point set of rules was written that now guides
ethical computing behavior
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