Security Ethics and Economics

1 Crimes related to computer security 1.1 Types of computer crimes • Damages to computer programs or files • Theft of hardware, software • View or manipulate the content that the intruder is not supposed to see. 1.2 Four types of ethical issues [1] • Privacy: The policy of which information could be required to divulge, be public, or be kept strictly private. • Accuracy: Misinformation could mislead people's decision and behavior. Thus it's also important to be able to verify that the information is integrate. • Property: Intellectual rights of information are complex under the current way of information generation. Substantial concerns exist around the ethical and economic aspects of these rights. • Accessibility: One must have the ability to deal with information, such as read, write and reasoning, have the access to information technology such as the Internet, library, computers and newspaper and have access to the information itself.