COMPUTER ETHICS

Computer Ethics

[CSC 120}

[Section 15]

Computer Ethics

At present the use of computers is increasing and thus the use of the Internet has become a necessity to perform various activities of social life and work. In this increasingly globalized world, people have the need to keep in touch with the society around them, which, thanks to the Internet is achieved. However, we must not forget that the Internet is an unregulated communications network, which leads to the perpetration of unethical and illegal activities detrimental to society. Like many other professions, Information Technology has seen the need to reflect on a particular ethic.

At that ethics is known as "Computer Ethics" (EI) . The goal of IE is not only analyze the impact of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) on human values, but to propose an appropriate conceptual framework for understanding the ethical dilemmas and also causes the computer to establish a guide when not regulation exists to use the Internet. Ethics is a philosophical discipline which is defined as guiding principles that guide people in their conception of life, man, judgments, facts, and morality. Information technology presents new situations and new problems and most of these new situations and problems are of an ethical nature, obviously there are attempts to solve these problems by applying the current rules and general ethical solutions.

It is important also to preserve the ethics of privacy and the secrets of others, whether published or even search in the forums or other. As we cannot fail to note not to harm others access to his dossier Hacking or Cracking sabotage or even make and send viruses and malicious software. Thus ethical judgments will vary, depending on the judge's world-view. Some examples:

Most CPU chips and microprocessors are composed of four functional sections: a unit arithmetic / logic: ...