Book Review: Chapter 8: Ethical Issues Involving Computer Security: Hacking, Hacktivism, and Counter hacking

 

Book: The-handbook-of-information-and-computer-ethic

 

Author: KENNETH EINAR HIMMA

 

Library Reference: N/A

 

Amazon Reference:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Information-Computer-Ethics/dp/0471799599/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233037513&sr=1-1

 

 

Quote:

 

“Whether and to what extent various types of unauthorized computer intrusions”

 

 

Learning Expectations

 

·         To know basically what is this topic?

·         Why ethical involves in computer security?

·         The difference of hacking, hacktivism and counterhacking

Review:

Many people say that hacking is wrong and some say that hacking is right. Well, it depends. We cannot determine the real act of hacking unless we do it in actual. For most people even an ordinary people, they say that hacking is wrong because hacking is exploring the private property of anyone without asking an official permission to the owner. Hacking is a skill wherein hackers do their best to access file that are protected. The word hacking is known in digital world because for computer people hacking is the term of destroying a security. The more malicious acts in hacking, the more people cause harm because hackers ruin their personal life. For computer technology, hacking constitutes a digital trespass onto a property of another person. This means that are those people who try to hack a private property, he/she may do so, but the conscience of guilt is still there.

 

Ethical issues involved here because in computer security also involves the morality of human rights. Asking question what is right and what is wrong. How do they do the wrong thing if they intend to do it in wrong way and likewise. Ethical is so much powerful that can give us more strength to do a particular thing. Again, it’s matter of what is right and what is wrong. If a computer hacker wants to hacks the system, it’s fine, but make sure that this will not harm other people because it is considered as a wrongdoing. If it is for good, then do it.

What I’ve learned:

The first pat talks about prima facie, it means at first glance, the system will not know if the intrusions made by the hacker are coming or not, therefore, the concept of security here must be in a high level so that hackers will be disappointed if they hack the system. It’s a matter of throwing of intrusions and empowering the system. High to high level of security and low to low level of security. It all depends on the hackers how they will play for it. The most important part here is the ethical values that a person wants to give in.

 

The first section articulates a prima facie general case against these intrusions. The second considers intrusions motivated by malicious intentions and by certain benign intentions, such as the intent to expose security vulnerabilities. The third considers hacktivism, while the fourth considers counterhacking (or hackbacks).

 

 

 

Integrative Questions:

 

1.     Why is it that ethical issue involves in computer security?

2.     What are the purposes of security in computers?

3.     Is it true that hacking is wrong?

4.     Why people need to secure their computers?

5.     How did people adopt this knowledge of security for hackers?

 

Citations: N/A