Aims at mitigation rather than eradication and comprises the following: take ethics seriously, have a sound understanding of the applicable theories of ethics and be adept to linking actions to these theories, adapt to a shift of view of risk and ethics, carry out ethical analysis and be adept to applying the ethical computing tools that include ethical matrix and hexa-dimension metric.
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Hexa-Dimension Metric, Ethical Matrix, and Cybersecurity
Wanbil William Lee (The Computer Ethics Society, Hong Kong & Wanbil and Asssociates, Hong Kong)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3479-3.ch030
Abstract
Exorbitant spending on cybersecurity continues; hacking proliferates and continues with the aftermath getting more and more damaging, yet data protection must helplessly continue. This is attributable to a vicious circle and culminates in something akin to a chronic disease, aptly called a “chronic problem of data protection.” The situation is complicated by a tripartite relationship, called the “Law-Security-Ethics Connection,” and exacerbated by a muddled view of the key concepts, notably ethics, privacy, and risk, which hinders a wholesome appreciation of the problem. Given the status quo, an ethics-based framework was perceived and developed aiming to lessen the incidence of hacking or make hacking exasperate to mitigate rather than eradicate because hacker-free cyberspace is unrealistic and impossible. This chapter aims to introduce a remedy successively through an exposition of the symptom and cause of the problem, clearing the muddle, and an illustration of the tools: Ethical Matrix and Hexa-Dimension Metric using the Octopus Saga.