Thursday, March 7, 2013



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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