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http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/artpp3.htm Ethics And the Computing Professional, There are some answers by Donald Gotterbarn. There has been extensive discussion of computer ethics in the past few years. Unfortunately, this discussion has had little consequence. Mass media had a significant influence on the direction, quantity, and quality of the discussion. Daily, one reads articles about brilliant students or wily hackers breaking into government computers, or about computer wizards engaged in stock manipulation. These news stories do not help educate anyone about computer ethics. The media assume that everyone understands computer ethics so they do not need to articulate the underlying principles of computer ethics. More accurately, I think, the media merely mirror some confusions that currently exist about the subject. How is one to understand the moral blameworthiness of an event when the descriptions of these events are sprinkled with praiseworthy adjectives -- brilliant, clever, intelligent, etc.? The style of these stories generates confusion about the praise or blame appropriate to the activities described. Full Article: http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/artpp3.htm


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