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    RESPONSIBLE USE OF COMPUTERS

    • Computer Ethics: These are the moral guidelines that


    govern the use of computers and information systems.
    A violation of this may results in computer crime
    which is a computer security risk issue.
    • A computer security risk is any event or action that
    could cause a loss or damage to the computer
    hardware, software, data, information, or processing
    capability. Some breaches to computer security are
    accidental and others are planned intrusions. Three of
    the more pressing concerns in computer ethics today
    are questions of copyright, piracy, and computer
    crime.
    Computer Security Risk-Definitions
    • Unauthorized Access and Use: Unauthorized
    access is the use of a computer or network
    without permission and unauthorized use is
    the use of computer or its data for unapproved
    or possibly illegal activities. It includes
    employee using an organization’s computer to
    send personal email messages, someone
    gaining access to a bank’s computer and
    performing unauthorized transfer.
    Computer Security Risk-Definitions
    • Software Theft (Piracy): This occurs when
    someone: (i) steals software media (ii) intentionally
    erases program (iii) illegally copies a program. The
    first type of software theft occurs when the media
    that contains the software or the hardware is stolen,
    the second one occurs when an outgoing employee
    decides to remove the software intentionally
    especially programmers and the third one occurs
    when the software is stolen from the manufacturers.
    This is known as piracy. Software piracy is the
    unauthorized and illegal duplication of copyrighted
    software.
    Computer Security Risk-Definitions
    • Information Accuracy: This refers to
    availability of right information to be put up for
    the right purposes from the right source. This
    involves avoiding the manipulating of graphics or
    images by altering the original information using
    special software to create an effect. Some
    information are censored before putting them in
    the public domain. Censorship is the suppression
    of speech or deletion of communicative material
    which may be considered as objectionable,
    harmful or sensitive, as determine by a censor.
    Computer Security Risk-Definitions
    • Intellectual Property Rights: Intellectual
    Property (IP) refers to unique and original
    works such as ideas, inventions, arts, writings,
    processes, company and product names, and
    logos. Intellectual property rights are the rights
    to which creators are entitled for their work. A
    copyright gives author and artists exclusive
    rights to duplicate, publish, and sell their
    materials. It protects the tangible form of
    expression. A common form of copyright
    violation is piracy.
    Computer Security Risk-Definitions
    • Codes of Conduct: Recognizing that
    individuals need specific standards for the
    ethical use of computers, a number of computer-
    related organizations have established IT codes
    of conduct. An IT/Computer code of conduct is
    a written guideline that helps determine whether
    a specific computer action is ethical or
    unethical. E.g. computers should not be used to
    copy or use software illegally, employee should
    not meddle in others’ computer files.
    Computer Security Risk-Definitions
    • Information Privacy: This refers to the right
    of individuals and companies to deny or
    restrict the collection and use of information
    about them. In the past, this was strictly
    adhered to since information are kept in
    separate location but now huge databases store
    this data online for people to access and those
    that are personal or confidential are accessible
    only to authorized users.
    ASSIGNMENT-DISCUSSION
    • Let students come out with their own rules and
    regulations to be put in place when using or
    maintaining order in the computer lab.

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