Please study the 18 vocabulary terms below and press the Mark Complete button to continue.
- commandment
- a rule to be observed as strictly
- CEI (Computer Ethics Institute)
- a nonprofit research, education, and public policy organization focused on the issues, dilemmas, and challenges of advancing information technology within ethical frameworks
- consent
- permission, agreement
- consequences
- results; things that happen as a result of a previous action; usually negative
- copyright infringement
- to use somebody's content without proper permission
- cracking
- criminal hacking; exploiting security holes to gain unauthorized access to computer systems
- dependent
- determined or controlled by something else
- encounter
- to meet or come across
- ethics
- a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality (what is right and wrong)
- Internet privacy
- general techniques and technologies used to protect sensitive data, communications, and preferences
- Norbert Wiener
- (1894–1964) mathematician and cybernetics pioneer; considered the forefather of computer ethics
- phishing
- obtaining sensitive information through a deceptive email campaign, while pretending to be a trusted person or business
- photoshopping
- digitally transforming or altering a photograph in order to misrepresent the original
- privacy policy
- a statement or a legal document that discloses the ways an organization gathers, uses, and stores the end user's data
- reputation
- the common opinion about someone or something
- snoop
- to search for private information without permission
- social engineering
- a broad term for any online or offline technique that uses deception to trick people into giving out confidential information
- tedious
- boring, repetitive, slow or long
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"Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people" is the first of the 10 Commandments of Computer Ethics, laid out by the Computer Ethics Institute.
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The CEI's mission is to facilitate the examination and recognition of ethical issues in the development and use of modern information technologies.
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I needed written consent from my boss to change the security settings on the server.
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The server admin was unaware of the dire consequences of installing the wrong version of Apache web server.
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The webmaster committed copyright infringement when he copied an article from another website.
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Ethically speaking, cracking is no different from other forms of illegal trespassing or stealing.
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The software utility was dependent on a specific architecture of CPU in order to run at optimal speed.
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If you meet an alien from another planet it is called a "close encounter of the third kind".
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As computers become more powerful the need for computer ethics classes is increasing.
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The US government routinely tries to expand and restrict Internet privacy laws.
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The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility is awarded annually by CPSR.
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The man thought his bank was asking him to change his password, but it was actually a phishing scam trying to trick him into revealing it.
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Magazines routinely photoshop pictures of models in order to remove pimples, moles, and wrinkles
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Every website that collects user information should have their privacy policy posted online.
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Being hacked can negatively affect a company's online reputation.
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The IT security officer was caught snooping on an employee's private email account in order to steal her personal bank account number.
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The hacker used social engineering methods to trick a bank teller into giving out another user's password.
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Debugging code can be a tedious process without the correct knowledge and tools.