Includes index and references

Contents: Catalysts for change: Introduction -- Milestones in computing -- Milestones in networking -- Milestone in information storage and retrieval -- Information technology issues -- Introduction to ethics: Subjective relativism -- Cultural relativism -- Divine command theory -- Kantianism -- Act utilitarianism -- Rule utilitarianism -- Social contract theory -- Comparing workable ethical theories -- Morality of breaking the law -- Networking: Email and spam -- Fighting spam -- The world wide web -- Ethical perspectives on pornography -- Censorship -- Freedom of expression -- Children and the web -- Breaking trust on the internet -- Internet addiction -- Intellectual property -- Intellectual property rights -- Protecting intellectual property -- Fair use -- New restrictions on use -- Peer-to-peer networks -- Protections for software -- Open-source software -- Legitimacy of intellectual property protection for software -- Creative commons -- Privacy -- Perspectives on privacy -- Disclosing information -- Public information -- U.S legislation -- Public records -- covert government surveillance -- U.S. legislation authorizing wiretapping -- Data mining -- Identity theft -- Encryption -- Computer and network security: Viruses, worms and trojan horses -- Phreaks and hackers -- Denial-of-service attack -- Online voting -- Computer reliability: Data entry or data-retrieval errors -- Software and billing errors -- Notable software system failures -- Therac-25 -- Computer stimulations -- Software engineering -- Software warranties --Work and wealth: Automation and unemployment -- Workplace changes -- Globalization -- The digital divide -- The "winner-take-all society" -- Access to public colleges -- Professional ethics: Is software engineering a profession? -- Software engineering code of ethics -- Analysis of the code -- Case studies -- Whistleblowing -- Appendix A: Plagiarism.