What Does Ethical Mean?

What does ethical mean? Ethical can be defined as, ‘relating to principles of what is right and wrong’ (Longman dictionary) or, ‘relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these’ (Oxford dictionary) another definition is “Ethics can be viewed from two angles, normative and prescriptive. First, ethics refers to well-based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, and specific virtues”. (Sembok, p4).There are a number of ethical issues faced in ICT, one of them is piracy. In my opinion, piracy or copyright infringement is the use of someone’s intellectual property without the owners’ permission. Piracy can become a huge
As we all know the internet is not a safe place, the lack of privacy on the internet is another ethical issue. Since more people have access to the internet, the number of ‘hacking’ cases has increased. Hacking from my point of view is when person tries to illegally access someone else’s file for mischievous reasons. Hacking has become a global problem because since more people have access to the internet doesn’t mean that all the people know their way around the internet, which makes them vulnerable to being hacked. There are other factors that contribute to the growth of hacking, for example, people not regularly changing their passwords or having weak passwords. Some websites have weak firewalls. Even though hacking is perceived as an illegal activity, there is a type of hacking that isn’t illegal which is known as ethical hacking. From my point of view Ethical hackers are trained professionals that hack into companies/organizations, with their permission to test if the company/organization websites are secure and if not they fix these problems. Some people think these ethical are the same hackers that hack other