For the most part, hackers are very educated and bright individuals, primarily teenagers, who are fascinated with the technology that comes their way.  Their primary reason would be to test their own limits and capabilities rather than knowing they are harming others.  For example, according to El Diablo, a highly intelligent Philadelphia-based hacker who has successfully hacked into the whitehouse.gov host address, his primary reason was to prove to himself that he was

able to hack into the government's computer systems.The fact of the matter is, regardless of what the reason might be, virus-creating hackers are given strict punishment for their federal offenses.  The government is now taking extreme measures to catch foul play in the cyber world.

According to IT managers across the globe, corporations are installing cyber watchers for the control of viruses and critical information. Unfortunately, cyber watchers provide a lot more than just virus control. According to Computer Economics, a Carlsbad, CA based research firm, companies lost an estimated $5.3 billion to recreational web surfing at work in 1999. Of course $5.3 billion is a lot of money for corporations to lose. Is it worth saving $5.3 billion dollars if it means destroying people´s privacy while at their workplace? This ethical dilemma comes from the abuse of viruses because now companies are installing services into their networks that serve two purposes: (1) protecting their networks from hacker attacks (2) Helping the companies gather personal information of their employees

internet surfing characteristics for their own self-benefit.The headline of CNN.com reads, "House Panel OK´s Stiffer Cyber-crime Penalties".  Although this title might seem like a positive thing to our communities from protection against cyber-crime, the subheading to the articles brings about a more complicated ethical issue, "Opponents Say Bill Will Further Erode Online Privacy".  According to CNN´s article, the creator of the "Melissa" virus, which had a final chaos of $1.2 billion, was sentenced to 20 months of prison and a $5,000 fine.  Under the newly developed bill, legislators can now give cyber criminals life imprisonment if human lives were at risk directly or indirectly.  The problem arises when this same bill allows Internet Service Providers to randomly scan their subscriber´s Internet usage to help find foul play.  The ethical issue to see here is, Are ISPs using their internet traffic scanning for the sole purpose of discovering foul play through their network or is it for self-benefiting purposes such as recording visited websites to provide corresponding advertisements?  Will John Doe be criticized if he runs for office in the future and his cyber watch history reads that he frequently visited pornographic sites in the past?  How about when John Doe loses his opportunity for office and tries suing the ISP for releasing the personal information to the media, will he win his lawsuit?  Of course not, the bill protects ISPs against lawsuits for their cyber scanning.  This is where hackers and viruses have taken the laws in respect to cyber patrol.

Pros and Cons of Virus Control Methods

pros

·Reducing IT security spending

·Saving money when avoiding harmful and financially burdening virus attacks

·Saving money when employees are working rather than surfing the Internet

·Improving cyber-communication tracking for National Security

·Help Enforce punishment for cyber criminals

cons

·Allowing ISPs to scan customer Internet exploring behaviors for self-benefiting reasons

·Invading human privacy in regards to web site preferences

·Destroying personal web surfer autonomy

·Developing tensions between employees and employers

·Increasing number of lawsuits and legal issues due to cyber watch information

COMMENTS

So I  can conclude that,ethical issues will arise when comparing the outcome of a cyber watch approach to virus control compared to the effect it might have on individuals when their privacy is being obstructed.  

        From the Kantian perspective, it is difficult to make a clear decision because the investigating party and the party being investigated can´t take the same approach to satisfy each other.  These two parties are on opposite ends!  The Kantian perspective promotes treating people the way you want to be treated.  In the Big Brother approach to cyber patrol and virus control, there is only one Big Brother and the person being monitored.  The Kantian approach cannot be applied to this situation.

        From the Utilitarian perspective, the ethical action lies on the one that produces the greatest benefit overall to those that are directly affected by it.  Since not every person in this world is infected with computer viruses, it makes sense to consider the ethical decision to avoid the cyber watch approach for virus control.  Cyber watch is applied to all employees of companies and all subscribers to Internet service while the prevention of viruses only benefits those that are in very vulnerable situations.  Therefore, taking a cyber watch approach will cause the greatest harm to those directly affected by it when it obstructs their privacy in different ways.

        From the Fairness/Justice perspective, the issue of treating people in different ways according to moral standards and differences arises.  Here you can ask whether or not cyber watch should be applied to corporate employees only and not household ISP customers, or the other way around.  It is not fair when employees are being monitored during their web surfing.  It is also not fair that a personal subscription to Internet service is being monitored especially if it is being paid for.  Household customers are paying for the Internet access that is being monitored while employees at companies are being paid while they surf the Internet.

        From the Rights perspective, an ethical decision is made when it obeys and follows all fundamental rights that relate to personal human dignity and autonomy.  This is relatively easy to understand that a cyber watch approach destroys any possible way of personal autonomy to those being monitored.  Not only does it eliminate the possibility of personal autonomy, it also abuses the human right of privacy.  Internet users are not given the opportunity to self-govern their web surfing habits.  Instead, they are being forced to act a certain way while online only because they know they are being watched.

        Finally, from the virtue perspective, an action is considered ethical if it promotes the most individual and social moral virtues.  This might be one of the only perspectives that might make cyber watching an ethical decision.  Under the close watch of cyber monitoring, employees will know to get work done rather than play on the internet all day, ISP customers will avoid going to pornographic sites, hate-crime sites, etc. because they know that ISPs are keeping a close watch, and society as a whole will reduce traffic to offensive sites and will get more work done in the office.Thats all..thank you....

refferences:
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Ethical-Issues-IT-Security-Professionals.html

http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/crime/viruses.htm

http://csrc.nist.gov/nissc/1998/proceedings/paperD7.pdf

 Hurm...ahakz....Actually,IL give a lot of  information about the latest technology..For example, we can build our own diary or blog or journal using Internet...Il also gives us the information about the computer language,software,wireless,.blue tooth,electronic commerce,telecommunication,network application,informations systems like ethics,privacy and security,and so on...Through IL,we can also build our business by using computer and network,so that our business work perfectly and  smoothly.

 Like me..as a teenager...live in a modern life....If i want to find a new friend from others country...others colleague ...others school...others state...it is too easy to find it..Just sign up in a social networking websites like myspace..friendster..tagged...face book..paagi....and so on..By using this websites,I have almost two thousand friends around the world!!!!ahakz........Like flickr websites..we can easily upload and share our personal pictures..Our friend can view our profile and look out our latest and sweet momment picture.

In this subject..we are also learn about Information systems,Management and Decision making.If infuture,I become manager of Software or something that related with computer department, I think i can handle it without any doubt...As we know,manager has many things to do rite??So in IL we already now that manager have three basic roles.

(i)Interpersonal roles: figurehead, leader, liaison

(ii)Information roles   : monitor, disseminator, spokesperson,analyzer

(iii)Decisional roles    :entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator,negotiator

 So in this case,as a manager,I must make a good decision and be a good leader to avoid my workers achievement going down. It is hard to make a good decisions without valid and relevant information.

For your knowledge, information is vital each phase and activity in the decision-making process. Furthermore, thats time,I as a manager,need IT support very much to make a good decision without valid and relevant information:

1. IT is a key to good decision making is to explore and compare many relevant alternatives. So ,if the more alternatives that exist, the more computer-assisted search and comparisons are needed

2. I as a manager actually cannot make a decisions in pressure.So I need IT to process information to be effective.

 More over, IL also provide me to planning for acquiring and maintaining information systems..The IT strategic plan is a set of long-range goals that describes the IT infrastructure and identify the major IT initiatives need to achieve the goals of my organization. Furthermore the IT steering committee actually is very important in my future organizations. This committee is set up to establish IT priorities and to ensure that the MIS function is meeting the needs of the enterprise ....

 Other than that , IL also provide me to managing knowledge and data.These things can make me more easy in my future as a manager although the process acquiring , keeping and managing data is becoming increasingly difficult.I also learn how to use database perfectly in managing the data.It quite interesting and quite difficult to do it in the first.The knowledge management in IL is actually process

that helps my future organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of my future organizations memory.

 In the nutshell, I think IL is a one subject that can help me in my future.It also can help me be more effective  as a manager...It gives me a lot of knowledge that cant easily to reach it..So that, I hope im not wasting time with take IL subject....Daaaa~~~~~~~~~

 Everybody has their own gadget right???I also have my own gadget...Actually I have many gadget, but because a lack of time to complete this task.. ahakz....I think better I write only one gadget.My gadget is a Nokia 95 ..........

   As we know,Nokia being one of the renowned mobile manufactures is eternally known for giving the best phone with latest technologies. Nokia offers high quality performance with excellent picture taking and imaging skills.More than that,it enchances peoples lives by providing user-friendly mobile phones.Nokia's enigmatic creation, Nokia N95 surpasses all its contemporaries, both in terms of looks and features. It is loaded with highly advanced features and is a step ahead in concentrating aggregated functions in a petite portable hand held device. The dual slide phone is packed with multiple features and elevating technology that is capable of doing everything a user expects......im actually quite interested with handphone that has a slide...It looks like elit and matured people rite???ahakz.....Furthermore,. Nokia N95 is possibly the topmost model in mobile phone fraternity. The phone supports 2G GSM and 3G SDPA network..

  The phones comes with a wide TFT screen of 40 x 53 mm which supports 16 million colours and a high resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The dimensions of this handset are 99 x 53 x 21 mm and it weighs about 120 grams. This stylish phone is empowered by an internal memory of 160 Mega Byte inflated, 64 Mega byte SDRAM memory and can be easily expanded up to 8GB using microSD (TransFlash).This advantages can make people that need the handphone that have a big memory to store many things that they need to store....Teenagers like me acually like to take a picture,to download a latest song,to surf the internet,to play the music,to listen the radio and so on rite???So that we need more space for our handphone to store all of these things....Nokia N95 comes with an in-built camera of 5.0 Mega pixels incorporated with a special Carl Zeiss optics for producing better quality images, autofocus, digital zoom, Flash and a secondary camera for videocalling.Im so interested with this handphone camera.....The picture that we snap,is too clear than others model....I like to take picture...where ever I go...even in the toilet....after wake up...and so on.....So,its better la buy these handphone than buy a camera rite???....Save.....Have many fuction...The price is suitable....Nokia N95 is powered by class 10 GPRS an class 32 EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB etc. The handsets has a built in GPS receiver, MP3 player, Stereo FM Radio, Microsoft Office document viewer and lots more. N95 comes in graceful and vibrant colours like Silver, Plum, Black, Pink and Red....    Pinkholic

The advantages of THIS handphone................

Operating Frequency

·      WCDMA 2100 + E850/900/1800/1900MHz

·      Automatic switching between bands and modes

Dimensions

·      Volume: 96 cc

·      Weight: 128 g

·      Length(max): 99 mm

·      Width(max): 53 mm

·      Thickness(max): 21 mm

Memory Functions

·      Up to 100MB internal dynamic memory for messages, ringing tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list and applications

·      Up to 8GB internal flash memory for multimedia content such as music, pictures, ringing tones, map data

*Operation times may vary depending on radio access technology used, operator network configuration and usage.

Power Management

·      Battery: Nokia Battery (BL-6F) 1200mAH

·      Talk time: up to 210 minutes (WCDMA), up to 300 min (GSM)*

·      Stand-by time: up to 280 hours (WCDMA and GSM)*

*Changes to product details are possible without prior notice. Application offering may vary. Dynamic memory means that the available memory is shared between dynamic memory functions. When any of these functions is used, there is less available memory for other functions which are also dependent on dynamic memory.

Display

·      Large 2.8" QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) TFT display with ambient light detector and up to 16 million colours

User Interface

·      S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1

·      Dedicated media keys

·      Multimedia menu

·      Active standby screen

Call Management

·      Contacts: advanced contacts database with support for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry, also supports thumbnail pictures and groups

·      Speed dialing

·      Logs: keeps lists of your dialed, received, and missed calls

·      Automatic redial

·      Automatic answer (works with compatible headset or car kit only)

·      Supports fixed dialing number, which allows calls only to predefined numbers

·      Conference call

·      Nokia Push to talk (PoC)

Voice Features

·      Speaker independent name dialing (SIND)

·      Voice commands

·      Voice recorder

·      Talking ringtone

·      Integrated hands-free speaker

Messaging

·      Text messaging: supports concatenated SMS, picture messaging, SMS distribution list

·      Multimedia messaging: combine image, video, text, and audio clip and send as MMS to a compatible phone or PC; use MMS to tell your story with a multi-slide presentation

·      Automatic resizing of your megapixel images to fit MMS (max 300 KB size depending on the network)

·      Predictive text input: support for all major languages in Europe and Asia-Pacific

Data Transfer

·      WCDMA 2100 (HSDPA) with simultaneous voice and packet data (PS max speed UL/DL= 384/3.6MB, CS max speed 64kbps)

·      Dual Transfer Mode (DTM) support for simultaneous voice and packet data connection in GSM/EDGE networks. Simple class A, multi slot class 11, max speed DL/UL: 177.6/118.4 kbits/s

·      EGPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 296 / 177.6 kbits/s

·      GPRS class B, multi slot class 32, max speed DL/UL= 107 / 64.2 kbits/s

Digital Service

·      Java™ and Symbian applications available from Nokia Software Market

·      JavaTM MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1

·      Flash Lite 2.0

Imaging and video

·      Up to 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels) camera, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens, MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30 fps

·      Direct connection to compatible TV via Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or wireless LAN/UPnP

·      Front camera, CIF (352 x 288) sensor

·      Video call and video sharing support (WCDMA network services)

·      Integrated flash

·      Digital stereo microphone

·      Flash modes: on, off, automatic, red-eye reduction

·      Online album/blog: photo/video uploading from gallery

·      Nokia Lifeblog 2.0 support

·      Video and still image editors

Mobile Video

·      Video resolutions: up to VGA (640x480 pixels) at 30 fps

·      Audio recording: AAC mono

·      Digital video stabilisation

·      Video capture: up to 215 min (VGA, 30fps)

·      Video file format .mp4 (default), .3gp (for MMS)

·      White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent

·      Scene: automatic, night

·      Colour tones: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid

·      Zoom: digital up to 10x (VGA up to 4x)

Mobile Photography

·      Image resolution: up to 5 megapixel: (2592 x 1944 pixels)

·      Still image file format: JPEG/EXIF

·      Auto focus

·      Auto exposure - center weighted

·      Exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.5 step

·      White balance: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent

·      Scene: automatic, user, close-up, portrait, landscape, sports, night, night portrait

·      Colour tone: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid

·      Zoom: digital up to 20x (5 megapixel up to 6x)

·      Viewfinder grid

Mobile Photography

·      Sensor: CMOS 5 megapixel (2592 x 1944 pixels)

·      Carl Zeiss optics: Tessar lens

·      Focal length 5.6 mm

·      Focus range 10 cm ~ infinity

·      Macro focus distance 10-50 cm

·      Shutter speed: mechanical shutter: 1/1000~1/4 s

Psst: mummy ..babah...adik need this hp very much....buy one for me la...quite boringla using N70...

It´s Finally Over

It´s been a long deep dream

And now I´m finally awaken

Wounded soul are finally healed

As once sweet promises

Are now indeed broken...

Bitter sweet words are said and done

Nothing has left but scars of the past

It seems you and I is endless

But now we are facing our tear-jerking moment

We now try facing our own lives, building our own dreams...

I waited long enough to finally realize

That love no longer exist just for the two of us

Only for the matter that my hope keep me to survive

For me to put the pieces back again

And once more try to relieve the love that once has died...

Even if I tried for the last time

I hurt no one but myself

I´ am such a fool to believe

That I can put the spark again

I belied to the truth that it´s finally over....