Centro Escolar Solalto
Information Technology in a
Global Society
Analysing
ITGS Situations
Instructions:
Use the following template to analyze news articles for your ITGS class.
News article title: New York Times says Chinese hackers broke into its computers
Brief description of situation: New York Times said that Chinese
have carried out attacks to their own computer systems, breaking and stealing
all the passwords of all the staff members, another thing is that The Wall
Street reported that also that hackers have carried out also to their computers
system. And finally The Times said that they were working with some experts to watch,
study and finally expel aggressors.
Key stakeholders: The Wall Street Journal, Chinese hackers, Wen Family,
FBI
IT system involved:
Related issues of social and ethical
significance:
1.1 Reliability and integrity, 1.2 Security, 1.3
Privacy and anonymity, 1.4 Intellectual property, 1.5 Authenticity, 1.6 The
digital divide and equality of access, 1.7 Surveillance, 1.8 Globalization and
cultural diversity, 1.9 Policies, 1.10 Standards and protocols, 1.11 People and
machines and 1.12 Digital citizenship
Areas of social impact:
Economic, political, cultural,
legal, environmental, ergonomic, health, psychological and morally.
Evaluating the impacts:
Are the impacts serious? Are
they long or short term? Are all the stakeholders affected of just a few? Are
the stakeholders a large or small group? Are the impacts local or global? Are
the impacts likely to lead to future problems?
Conclusion:
Who is responsible? What are
the consequences? What are the alternatives? Is there an easy solution to the
problem?
Centro Escolar Solalto
Information Technology in a
Global Society
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