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Why Data Security Is An Issue For Business Phone Systems In 2023
A discussion of the most common phone scams, how they work, and how to protect yourself from them.
From BLOG@CACM
Students Speak to Ethical Issues
What are the concerns of students after study of computer ethics?
From BLOG@CACM
Cryptocurs Don't Asportate
Cryptocurrency on a blockchain cannot be stolen -- it's true.
From BLOG@CACM
Experiencing Loops in Time
We don't experience program loops as blocks, started over, because time is one-way.
From BLOG@CACM
Misnomer and Malgorithm
The algorithm should be respected; the malgorithm should be rejected.
From BLOG@CACM
Deadlines of the Digital Turn
Sometimes the digital turn forces us to designate things that aren't there.
From BLOG@CACM
The Virus Analogy and Validation
The comparison between organic viruses and computer viruses is compelling. But why?
From BLOG@CACM
Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
From BLOG@CACM
The Vote as a Declared Datum
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
From BLOG@CACM
Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
From BLOG@CACM
The Artificialistic Fallacy
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
From BLOG@CACM
FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
From BLOG@CACM
Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
From BLOG@CACM
Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
From BLOG@CACM
Tech Ethics at Work
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
From BLOG@CACM
Human Acts and Computer Apps
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
From BLOG@CACM
It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How'
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
From BLOG@CACM
Deep Dictionary
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...
From BLOG@CACM
Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.12