Operation Shadow Web: A Multifaceted Ethical Analysis

OPERATION SHADOW WEB
Assignment 1: Three Distinctive Perspectives of Applied Ethics
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Perspective 1: Professional Ethics...................................................................................................3
Perspective 2: Philosophical Ethics.................................................................................................4
Perspective 3: Sociological Ethics...................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Applied Ethics is the part of ethics that is mostly concerned with the investigation of public and
private moral issues. There are basically three different perceptions of the applied ethics through
which these moral issues can be identified and solved. These perspectives are philosophical
ethics, professional ethics, and sociological ethics. Cyberethics means the issues related to the
ICT (information and communication technology).
In this essay, all three different perspectives are used to approach and analyze the cyberethics of
the issue involved in the Media Article “Operation Shadow Web”. This article explained about
the cyber-crime happened in the Australia and other countries and the three perspectives of the
applied ethics and how these ethics have been applied and implemented.
Media Article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-08/infraud-australian-among-36-arrested-
in-global-cybercrime-ring/9407622
Perspective 1: Professional Ethics
This is the main branch of the applied ethics in the field of ICT (Information and Communication
Technology) as this perspective can be best suitable for determining and analyzing the cyber
ethical issues. The main cyber issues that have happened mostly includes with the role of IT
professionals in the developing, designing and maintaining the software and hardware system of
the computer. Tavani (2012, p.16) says that “The only method to make logic of ‘Computer
Ethics’ is too slender its emphasis to those activities that are inside the control of the individual
ethical computer professional”.
In the media article of “Operation Shadow Web”, a group of 36 people including an Australian
man has been identified in the case of a global identity robbery ring called as “one-stop shop for
cybercriminals”. They steal the credit card of the people and then stole the information of credit
card on the dark wen that causes the loss of more than $677 million. This operation of shadow
web has been coordinated by the law enforcement agencies of the United States, Australia,
Europe and Asia to dismantle and disrupt the international criminal initiative known as the
Infraud Organization. The Infraud Organization was established in the year 2010 by the
Ukrainian man who has operated this cyber issue and made the slogan “In Fraud We Trust”.
They used an online medium to purchase and sell the credit card that was stole including the
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