Ethics

Learning outcomes:

Explain the concepts of trust and trustworthiness
Describe important ethical issues in computer security
Explain ethical issues in bug handling, bug disclosure, breach disclosure, and data exfiltration
Describe compliance requirements for state and federal data handling

Confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others.
Transitive trust
Web Certificates
Digital signatures

Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Example: In the course of your job, you find confidential mental health information about someone who babysits your child. What do you do?
Example: A client asks for a meeting at 3pm on a Friday, near your house. If the meeting ends early, do you go home or back to work?
Example: You're getting all the credit for a team project at work or school. Do you say anything?
Example: You work in IT and happen to see your coworkers' emails. Or, you're asked to go through the emails or computers of your coworkers or bosses.
Real life example: Schools putting loggers and RATs on loaned laptops. There are multiple examples and articles talking about this

Certification or confirmation that the doer of an action (such as the writer of an audit report), or the manufacturer or supplier of a product, meets the requirements of accepted practices, legislation, prescribed rules and regulations, specified standards, or the terms of a contract.

Suggested Activities and Discussion Topics:

Is it ever OK to pirate content, such as movies, games, or software? Does it matter if the content is no longer available, not available where you live, or priced so only a large corporation can afford it?
Is information on a company device private? What about accounts logged in on that device? What if your job requires a phone, but the company won't pay for one? What if they pay for one, but you can't afford a second phone of your own?
When should your data belong to you? What if it was collected in a way you couldn't do on your own, such as medical imaging or other expensive equipment?
Should companies be able to see your credit score? Should they be able to ask for your social media logins? Does your answer change for different jobs or companies, such as government jobs, contractors, or jobs that affect everyone in society, like teachers, police officers, or social workers?

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