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 theories relate to these core issues.
Course Material
identify and discuss three topics, perspectives, or positions that you’ve engaged with in this course. For each, write about how your position or your thoughts have changed, deepened, or gained nuance, and write down a “takeaway” in the form of something you’d like your future self to remember and be guided by.
The first topic was privacy, privacy was a really interesting topic because the privacy module really changed my way of thinking in regards to privacy as a sense of freedom amongst the people. But also privacy as in how much of it we really have the concept with informational friction being how much effort it is for someone to gain information about oneself. Which really opened my eyes about how much privacy we really have also. We look at pop culture figures and now with streaming being a really profitable avenue for many there are people who stream or record and post their daily lives. We see reality tv with many private things happening which don’t become so much private after millions and or thousands of people have seen it, limiting that information friction. My key takeaway is that remember how we navigate the online space, how much informational friction we put up and how we can lower that frictional barrier.
My second topic is whistleblowing, whistleblowing for me is a big topic just due to my personal interest especially with the ongoing UAP topic and situation. We see whistleblowing with that with the likes of David Gursch and whistleblower protections it gave me a deeper understanding in which something I heard recently with very controversial Ashton Forbes for his belief with the disappearance of MH370 is that the issue at hand is not about aliens or something so SCI FI but what the impact and benefit it can have on society. When I look at whistleblowing and how people can blow the whistle out of loyalty to society, the business and the wishing of the well being. It allowed me to see that translation and that people can whistleblow out of loyalty because they really want to see the betterment of something such as what happened with the collateral damage video. For my future self I would want to be guided that some things aren’t done out of betrayal or hate but more because you want to see that something succeeds as we see with care ethics.
Third topic is Cyber war ad bellum and in bello was really interesting for me, we discussed it in cyber law. With both of these theories and war theory it really lets me sit and think about how many wars are really just some wars pointless and especially in the aspect of cyber war how can we decipher and choose what’s just and what isn’t. The topic regarding cyber war have led me to really think about war in general in that way seeing from the aspect of just and not just as for cyber war becoming more and more a emerging topic it makes me think and wonder if some attacks can lead to a nation attacking a innocent country for instant someone conducts a attack from spain but the person of nationality was acting for a nation in africa for instance. What can be the repercussions of such an attack when they respond to the attack, it is against the wrong country.