Computer Ethics & Social Issues

1. Computer Ethics & Social Issues Social Networking

2. What is Social Networking? • Online community • Facebook • Twitter • LinkedIn • Google Plus • MySpace

3. What is Social Networking? • Online forum • Reddit • SomethingAwful • 4chan • 9gag

4. What is Social Networking? • Online virtual worlds • Second Life • World of Warcraft • Entropia Universe • Farmville

5. What Could Go Wrong?

6. Cyberbullying

7. Cyberbullying • Use of technology to harass, torment, humiliate, threaten, and/or coerce others • Text messages • Email • Facebook posts • Twitter posts • Image posts to internet forums

8. Amanda Todd

9. Amanda Todd • Committed suicide at age 15 • Coerced by a stranger on the internet to bare her breasts on camera when she was 13 • Stranger has information which makes her think that this person knows her and her friends, blackmails her for sexual intercourse • Amanda is stalked via Facebook and her topless photos are distributed to her friends at school, repeated again and again as she moves to new schools

10. Amanda Todd • Suicide attempts resulted, including drinking bleach, self-mutilation, and ultimately death by hanging

11. Amanda Todd • 4chan • Online anonymous imageboard • Photos are shared of Amanda’s autopsy • Anonymous users comment upon her naked corpse • Anonymous users comment upon her failure to drink enough bleach • etc., etc., gets worse from there • Upset about the tragedy, some members of the hacktivist group Anonymous seek and reportedly find the person who provoked and stalked her for the past several years

12. Steubenville High School Rape • Steubenville, Ohio – Aug 11, 2012 • High school girl becomes incapacitated by alcohol at a party • Is undressed, repeatedly sexually assaulted by other high school students while being photographed by others with cell phones • The images are sent via text message and go viral • Several students comment online via Facebook and Twitter about the sexual abuse, including the alleged rapists

13. Steubenville High School Rape • Anonymous intervenes • Branch organization called “KnightSec” • Deric Lostutter • Faces 10 years in jail • Violated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act • Responsible for helping to collect information leading to the arrest and conviction of the rapists • Faces greater jail time than those who humiliated and repeatedly raped an unconscious 16 year old girl

14. Social Media Ethics • So… you “can” send a snapchat of your naked girlfriend to your buddies to show them how much of a hardcore player you are • Does this mean you “should?” • Who pays the consequences if you do? • Is it a crime? • Could you face a civil case? • Is Snapchat responsible for making this possible?

15. Yik Yak

16. Yik Yak

17. Yik Yak • Anonymous bulletin board for comments • Uses geo-location to allow you to connect with other users in your area • Upvote/downvoteothers’ posts for community-driven social commentary

18. Yik Yak • Abuse • Some choose to post insulting or offensive messages • Cyberbullying • Hate speech

19. Yik Yak • Banned in many locations • Middle schools, High schools • Bomb threats • Incitement of violence • Suicide • Should it be banned for colleges? • Freedom of Speech?

20. Online Virtual Worlds

21. Griefing • Online Multiplayer Games • A griefer might… • Constantly kill you over and over again just because • Deliberately act out of character in a role-play setting • Fake extreme incompetence just to hurt teammates • Friendly fire • Just make your gaming experience not so much fun

22. Virtual Crime • Many MMO games have a purchasing component, be it a subscription fee or in-game items that allow you to “pay to win” • The theft of account access credentials, scamming other players to trade in-game items for sale outside of the game, and “gold farming” are examples of online crime

23. Stay Away From Goldshire

24. Erotic Role Play • “ERP” for short • MMORPGs have the capability, intentional by the designers or not, to allow players to role play… all sorts of fantasies • This becomes an ethical issue when regarding adult content in a virtual world where the age of another gamer is unknown • The line between “virtual sex” and actual sex is very blurred in the eyes of the law!!!

25. Social Networks + Hiring Process

26. Everything is Subject to Google • When I am considering someone for a job: • Google search name • Find: • Facebook profile • Twitter posts • Cross-reference discovered aliases via Google • Find: • Forum posts • Product reviews on websites • Personal profiles

27. Why Snoop? • You gave me a piece of paper with a lot of promises which I otherwise cannot verify • You are a different person in a phone interview than in-person • Why? • You represent a potential risk to my business • Are you an industrial spy? • Are you less qualified than you say?

28. Sound Familiar?

29. Example • Cornel du Preez • Senior Student Information Security Analyst at UNG • How secure are we?

30. Google Search

31. Twitter

32. Personal Biography

33. Personal Blog

34. Staff Directory Listing • We can verify his employment, job title, email address, and phone number

35. Hangtime

36. LinkedIn

37. Example • So, there is a lot of data about you out there • Some of it is benign • Some of it is not • Most of it was out there by you • But not necessarily!

38. spokeo.com

39. Social Networking Ethics • How much information do you really need to share? • If you aren’t sharing it, who is? • Right to Privacyvs. Free Speech • Who has the right to contact you? • Are you on a public forum? Is it ethical to ban someone in a public forum?

40. Social Networking Ethics • “Snooping” before hire • Employers cannot discriminate based upon age, creed, sex, race, etc. • Are forbidden to ask such questions before an interview • If your profile is public and the employer can see your information before instigating the interview process and then decides not to hire you because of what they saw, is that still discrimination?

41. Business and Social Networking

42. Business and Social Networking

43. Business and Social Networking

44. Social Networking • Good for business? • As a tech startup, you can find a niche to exploit and found a successful business • As an enterprise, can be used for: • Product/service marketing • Public relations • Means of attracting new hires • Means of attracting new partnerships

45. @UNG_INFOSEC

46. Social Networking • Bad for business? • Distracted employees • Possibility for bad public image • Opinions of employees may affect public opinion of the business itself • Lack of proper netiquette or bad design can reflect poorly on the business

47. Business Pitfalls • High network bandwidth utilization • Employees downloading/streaming large files • Malware • Is your security up-to-date? • Social engineering • Don’t be fooled by Eve! • Legal liability • Disgruntled employees, hate speech, etc.

48. #McDStories

49. The Meme

50. Topic • Meme: • An idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture • Slogan, picture, video, hashtag, etc. • Can build publicity for a business, service, product or personality