Two Ethical Issues in computing

Spreading or creation of virus or worm.

Virus or worms can cause damage to computer resources and can also have a psychological effect to the affected person. Virus or worms are programs that damage the computer, applications or data thus can be very destructive to the society. This is a violation of the computer ethics in particular “Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you write.”

Spamming

Spamming is sending commercial email messages to a group of people. The target list of recipients (and other information) of these email are offered for sale to corporations who can afford or want to advertise without knowledge of the recipients. Span messages use some computer resources and it is annoying.This is a violation of the computer ethics in particular “Thou shalt not use other people’s computer resources without authorization”