Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age (eBook)

This 3rd edition takes off where the 2nd ended to examine ethical, social, and policy challenges steaming from the emergence of cyberspace and the convergence of telecommunication and computing technologies, and the miniaturalization of computing, telecommunication, and information enabling devices. New topics and features include: Provides fundamental discussion of computer network security system design and operation to reveal vulnerable areas in the computer network infrastructure; introduces and explores techniques in electronic crime investigation; explores biometric techniques to system access control. This book provides an updated discussion of the ethical and social issues that continue to evolve as computing and information technologies proliferate. Students, practitioners, and professionals who need to know about computer ethics, the legal aspects of computing, network security, computer crime investigation, and biometrics will find this an invaluable resource that addresses the latest in computer and information security.

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viii As we look for such a strategy, technological development races on with new technologies that make our efforts and existing technologies on which they are based obsolete in shorter and shorter periods. For example, when I started to write the first edition in 1996, computer networking and associated computer network security were not big, the Internet and associated d- coms were yet to become commercialized and associated with big money, and mass global computer network attacks like "e;Malissa"e;, "e;Love Boy"e;, and Distributed Denial of Services (DDOS) were unknown. All these illustrate the speed at which the computing environment is changing and demonstrate a need for continuous review of the computer s- ence education in both content and pedagogy. So the focus in this edition is to address those changes. In this edition, I have made major changes in some of the chapters, reorganized others, and added new ones to bring the book update with current issues.