Michael Bailey - Prof. from University of Michigan Digital Security
Date: - Location: Eurecom
: Research on rapidly advancing information and communication technology (ICT) has exposed gaps between what researchers could do and what they should do. Existing research in security, networking, and distributed systems---malware, botnets, click fraud, phishing spam, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, denial-of-service attacks, underground markets, etc.---routinely raise issues of risks including physical, psychological, legal, social, and economic harms. Existing work in ethics, in particular normative ethics, provides a variety of formal mechanisms for reasoning about the correctness of one's behavior, but the application of these methods in these domains has been hampered due to a lack of community consensus on principles, a dearth of practical experience in formal ethical decision making, and gaps and inconstancies in enforcement and oversight. This talk highlights the need to tackle these thorny issues and discusses a number of community efforts aimed at addressing them.
