– Financial Hacks What are some of the ways that people can hack into financial systems and steal money? Is it ethical for banks and other companies to always give themselves the financial benefit of rounding down balances and interest payments so that they get the benefit instead of the customer?
-The ways that people can hack into financial systems and steal money is by means of a computer crime. Computer crime refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime because many criminals are using internet to steal money.
-It is not ethical for banks or to other companies to always give themselves the financial benefit of rounding down balances and interest payments so that they get the benefit instead of the customer because in terms of money, banks are the only one we can trust so that if they just give themselves the financial benefit instead of the customers they are just taking advantage to benefit themselves so these customers might lose their willingness to go to that bank.
2. Safety Critical Applications
As our economy becomes more and more dependent upon computer controlled devices, how much faith should be placed in the hands of software programs? Are there ways to ensure that a program is failed safe? Should a safety critical application such as a network of nuclear defense missiles or an air traffic control system be controlled only by a computer program rather than having a human element to over ride potential consequences?
-For me, even if computer gives us an accurate and fast result in work we cannot fully trust computer program because sometimes computer program have some errors. But in nuclear defense missiles, computer can handle it more than humans because in this case humans can possibly to have more mistakes than computer. But then again we cannot fully trust computer, we should always check it for us to be safe.
1. Assume that Donna Prima taught at a school whose dean was less vigilant. If no one at her school questions her, is it ethical for her to continue to create her Website without permission?
- It is not ethical to continue to create her Website because even if no one questions her at her school somebody will still criticize her for her work. But she can teach her students in proper just ask authorization to the real author and give proper credits to their work.
2. Assume a newly hire professor spends his summer preparing a set of PowerPoint presentations to accompany his class lectures. Is it ethical for a student to take copious notes of the lectures and share them with classmates? Sell them to classmates? Sell them to a company called "Better Notes" to be copied and re-sold? How would your analysis differ if the professor linked an in class presentation prepared on Microsoft PowerPoint to his own Web site? Posted them on a Web site created especially for his class?
-It is ethical because it is okay to take copious notes of the lecture if their professor created it. But it is not ethical if they sell them it to their classmates. And if the professor linked an in class presentation prepared on Microsoft PowerPoint to his own Web site it is ethical because it is his own work he did not copy it to others. And if he posted them on a Web site created especially for his class it is okay because it is his own work.
3. Suppose that the professor does not get tenure-- or leaves for a better job. Would it be ethical for the university to demand he leave his notes behind for the teacher who replaces him? To retain the Website with it as a "course outline" or a profit?
- It is not ethical for the university to demand the works of professor because the professor only copied the work of others. The next professor should have his or her own course outline or if he/she want it she must first get the authorization to the real author.
