Computer Ethics Essays (1306 words) - Computing, Technology

Computer Ethics Computer Ethics Computer crime has increased in resent years. The book gives several examples of past computer crimes. Before reading chapter 2 I thought that computer crimes only involved crimes that where associated with hacks. But I learned that a computer crime is a crime that involved a computer in any way. Even if it was just to close a bank account. This chapter gave me a good understanding of what a computer crime is, it also made me think how could I make some money. By reading this chapter I was surprised to learn that most computer crimes are committed by people that dont have an extensive understanding of computers, but by opportunist. In one of the cases I read about, a group of hackers figured out a way to intrude into the bank system but didnt do any damage to the bank. Then they tried to sell their knowledge to the bank and got arrested. It seemed unfair to me that for trying to help the bank they got arrested. In many cases the people accused of computer crime do it without know wha t they do. As in the example of the 8 year old boy that transferred 1,000,000 dollars to his account by inserting a envelope with a cartoon of cereal in it and pressing 1 many times. I thought the book made a good point in saying that most computer crimes are kept secret from the public by the victims especially banks so people wont loose their trust in them. I think all people come to a point in their life that they have the opportunity to enrich them self illegally without getting caught and thats where a descent and ethical person is reveled. Software theft is a very commune type of crime. Crimes that all off us commit, but dont feel neither wrong in committing it nor will stop doing it for several reasons. Software companies charge unrealistically high for software packages. Users personally wont be penalized for doing so. Nobody wants to pay for something they can get for free. But at the same time programmers want to be compensated for their work. To tell you the truth I dont understand the point of software developers that want for all software to be free. If software was free, who will pay our salaries and who is going to work for free. Their point is that, if the source code would be free that programmers could improve existing programs, but who is going to work for free in improving those programs, I wouldnt. Its easy to say for programmers like Stallman that are financially sponsored by others, that software should be for free he is getting paid, who is going to pay us? I agree with Pamela Samuelson The existing system of patent laws is still the best vehicle for protecting software. I agree with the opinion that hacking has changed in recent years. Before hacking used to be a demonstration of knowledge of a system or of making a statement that Im smarter than most people. Most of those attacks where not malicious, now hackers have become malicious and most of them dont demonstrate that they are smart nor demonstrate knowledge of a system. Most hack s are people that have nothing to do and go through the trashcans of corporations in hopes of finding manuals or passwords of systems or going to Tec fairs to peek over someone shoulder to see if they are dialing in into a remote system and try to get they password and username. I dont agree with laws that punish hackers that do innocent penetrations into systems. I think thats a god thing since those penetrations make the system operators aware of their vulnerability of attack by a malicious hacker. If no malicious penetrations wouldnt be punished and companies would pay for finding loopholes in their systems the number of malicious attack would drastically descend. I agree with the point of view of IBM. I think that the best way of eliminating viruses is by educating programmers about the damage those viruses cause and that they are wrong and dont demonstrate anything except the maliciousness and stupidity of they

North Carolina State Laws on Abortion

North Carolina State Laws on Abortion What is an abortion? "The administration of any drug, device, potion, medicine, or any other substance or the use of any instrument or any other means whatsoever with the specific intent of terminating the life of a pre-born child (the human being in existence from fertilization until birth) or pre-born children" ("Abortion"). The laws vary from state to state. However, the North Carolina State Abortion Law does not include enough restrictions for young women. I believe that the North Carolina State Abortion Law does not protect the fetus as it should.In order for a young woman to have this medical procedure preformed she must have written parental consent, considering "she is under the age of eighteen and has never been married or emancipated" ("Who" 1). In the same way, "a grandparent whom the young woman has been living with for six months may also provide parental consent" ("Who"). By the parents giving consent to the young woman for an abortion, they are saying "it's okay", when in reality it's not.On old grocery store in Rex, North Carolina