COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
ETHICS IN COMPUTING
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A government policy that required Internet Service Providers to allow equal access to all web content.
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A network of encrypted content that allows users to engage in untraceable activity.
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Malicious attacks on networks and websites for the purpose of promoting social change, regarded by some civil disobedience and others cyberterrorism.
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When somebody enters your computers data without permission.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hacktivism is nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. Cyberterrorism consists of politically motivated illegal attacks against information, computer systems, programs and data resulting in violence against noncombatant targets.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hacktivists often consider their activities a form of civil disobedience, meaning they are willfully breaking a law to further their protest.
Detailed explanation-3: -An example of hacktivism is a denial of service attack (DoS) which shuts down a system to prevent customer access. Other examples involve providing citizens with access to government-censored web pages or providing privacy-protected means of communication to threatened groups (such as Syrians during the Arab Spring).