{"id":207,"date":"2023-09-24T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/cyberimpact-template\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2025-04-22T23:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:31:28","slug":"phil-355e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/aurorafrancis\/law-ethics\/phil-355e\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Ethics: PHIL 355E"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity Ethics<\/h1>\n

This course examines ethical issues relevant to ethics for cybersecurity professionals, including privacy, professional code of conduct, practical conflicts between engineering ethics and business practices, individual and corporate social responsibility, ethical hacking, information warfare, and cyberwarfare. Students will gain a broad understanding of central issues in cyberethics and the ways that fundamental ethical theories relate to these core issues.<\/p>\n

Course Material<\/h1>\n

Case Analysis: User Data<\/a><\/p>\n

Case Analysis: Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Reflecting Writing Assignment<\/span><\/div>\n

Cybersecurity Ethics was actually a class I was really excited to take. Mostly because I<\/span>
do tend to really like looking at different points of views for different issues and having debates<\/span>
about them. So when I first signed up for the class I was a little sad it was an online class. Of the<\/span>
topics that we did talk about, my favorites were the privacy case analysis, the story behind<\/span>
contractarianism, and the whistleblowing case analysis.<\/span><\/div>\n

The privacy topic was the first one we really went over for the case analysis we had to<\/span>
do. It mainly followed a story covering how people around the world feel about Google\u2019s street<\/span>
view. Many people felt it invaded their privacy and others were grateful because they can use it<\/span>
for work and personal uses. So the paper was essentially asking what Google should do<\/span>
according to whatever ethical reason you used and in this case I used utilitarianism. This is<\/span>
essentially judging an action based on consequences and that it is a good action is what helps the<\/span>
most people whether that is lessening something bad or making something better. When I was<\/span>
looking over the issue I knew I didn\u2019t mind Google street view but I can understand how some<\/span>
people would, given that when it first started sometimes people would be caught in the views and<\/span>
license plates and it might be easy to identify where someone lives based on that information. So<\/span>
when it came to writing the case analysis, I tried to be as unbiased as I could. Overall, when it<\/span>
came to this topic my stance was pretty clear. Privacy is very important, but there are still ways<\/span>
that Google street view can still be present and maintain people’s privacy, mainly by asking them<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if they’re okay with any of their property being included and then catering to what they do or do<\/span>
not allow. However, while reading it I did realize that with the growing amount of cybercrime<\/span>
the government is trying to get more access to people’s information, and that made me realize<\/span>
I\u2019m definitely not okay with that because everyone should be able to be guaranteed privacy until<\/span>
a warrant is provided.<\/span><\/div>\n

The next part of the class that I actually liked was one that involved reading a story. I<\/span>
happen to love reading so I actually really loved this part. The story was part of an assignment<\/span>
that was supposed to explain one of the ethical tools for us, this one specifically being for<\/span>
contractarianism. The story was written about a disease the author created by mashing the<\/span>
symptoms of three already scary diseases together. This disease was a side effect of anyone who<\/span>
had taken a treatment that gets rid of cancer and is typically passed on by their children. The<\/span>
point of the story was to then see, under a veil of ignorance, if a society with the choice to get rid<\/span>
of cancer but with those side effects would be better than one without it. In my opinion I think it<\/span>
would be a good option to get rid of cancer but obviously given the outcomes I don\u2019t know if<\/span>
everyone would take that option. Outside of the veil of ignorance I think if someone did decide<\/span>
to take the medicine that they would also have to agree to get a surgery to keep them from<\/span>
having kids to pass the disease on to. Mainly because in the book the people with the disease,<\/span>
whether they were born that way or not, were segregated and diminished just for having it. I<\/span>
know it sounds like a crazy agreement but even after writing the paper about it my opinion didn\u2019t<\/span>
change.<\/span><\/div>\n

The last part of the class that was interesting to me was the whistleblowing case analysis.<\/span>
The story it was based around was about a woman who released a video of the U.S military<\/span>
wrongfully killing innocents in an attempt to get rid of a gunman in a different country when the<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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government at first made it seem like everything went smoothly. Once the video was released it<\/span>
was shown how the rules of engagement were used, the attitudes of the soldiers\/gunman, and the<\/span>
innocent people (including children and news reporters) were injured or killed. The paper was<\/span>
essentially to explain if Manning (the woman) was moral or immoral for her whistleblowing.<\/span>
Many of the authors of the pieces used for that piece talked about loyalty and while loyalty could<\/span>
be a big part of the loyalty my opinion actually changed a bit when I first turned in the essay.<\/span>
When I first turned it in I was aiming more that Manning had no loyalty to the U.S, but after I<\/span>
turned it in the T.A mentioned that maybe her loyalty was elsewhere like with the U.S people<\/span>
and wanting to open their eyes to what the government was doing behind their backs or without<\/span>
their knowledge, shooting kids and killing innocents.<\/span><\/div>\n

Overall, I would say I did really enjoy writing all the papers. As stressful as they often<\/span>
were, reading the information, and learning more about the different ethical tools really opened<\/span>
my eyes to the different points of views people can think from for every issue.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity Ethics This course examines ethical issues relevant to ethics for cybersecurity professionals, including privacy, professional code of conduct, practical conflicts between engineering ethics and business practices, individual and corporate social responsibility, ethical hacking, information warfare, and cyberwarfare. Students will gain a broad understanding of central issues in cyberethics and the ways that fundamental ethical… <\/p>\n

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