Ethics

AI-Generated Personas: Trust and Deception
And the Ethical Dilemma of Using AI to Create Fake Online Personalities In recent years, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have given rise to powerful tools like StyleGAN and sophisticated language models ...
Licensing AI Engineers
The debate over professionalizing software engineers is decades old. (The basic idea is that, like lawyers and architects, there should be some professional licensing requirement for software engineers.) Here’s a law journal ...

The Problem of Victim Blaming in Cybersecurity: Empathy, Responsibility & Ethical Practices
In this episode of the Shared Security Podcast, we discuss the concerning issue of victim-blaming in cybersecurity with special guest, Andra Zaharia, host of the Cyber Empathy and We Think We Know ...
Ethical Problems in Computer Security
Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh wrote excellent paper on ethical thinking within the computer security community: “Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversation“: Abstract: The computer security ...
The Legacy of The Hacker Manifesto
I was 11 years young when The Hacker Manifesto was originally published in 1986 (yes, I’m that old). I had no idea about the manifesto at that age but several years later ...

The Ethics of Selling Hacker Tools
With Indiana Jones about to enter the space race in the Dial of Destiny, I am reminded of the great Tom Lehrer’s 1965 song about former Nazi scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun’s ...

Ethics in AI: The Missing Code
As part of its push toward artificial intelligence, Microsoft laid off more than 10,000 employees and spent billions on acquiring AI tech. Among those laid off were the seven-member team in their ...

The Psychic and the Social Engineer
Do you believe in psychics? Many people turn to psychics and mediums for advice or to communicate with dead loved […] ...

What’s Ahead for AI and Cybersecurity in 2022
There was no shortage of cybersecurity headlines in 2021. From REvil’s attacks, disappearance and resurgence to a brewing “cyber cold war” sweeping the world, 2021 was one of the most hectic years ...

The Role of Ethics in Cybersecurity Studies
Nobody wants to be a proverbial guinea pig; least of all, developers donating their time and energy to making the world a better place. You’d think with all the recent discussion about ...