Johann Rost, Robert L. Glass

The Dark Side of Software Engineering

Evil on Computing Projects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Betrayal! Corruption! Software engineering?

Industry experts Johann Rost and Robert L. Glass explore the seamy underbelly of software engineering in this timely report on and analysis of the prevalance of subversion, lying, hacking, and espionage on every level of software project management. Based on the authors' original research and augmented by frank discussion and insights from other well-respected figures, The Dark Side of Software Engineering goes where other management studies fear to tread -- a corporate environment where schedules are fabricated, trust is betrayed, millions of dollars are lost, and there is a serious need for the kind of corrective action that this book ultimately proposes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IEEE Press / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14559717000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780470597170
• ISBN-10: 0470597178
• Artikelnr.: 29930514

Autorenporträt

Johann Rost has worked in the software industry for twenty years. He has taught at the University of Applied Science at Bingen, Germany, and at Politehnica University at Bucharest, Romania. Robert L. Glass is the author of twenty-eight books on computing subjects, including the bestselling Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering. He has written nearly one hundred articles on computing subjects and has served as a columnist for three leading publications--Communications of the ACM ("The Practical Programmer"), IEEE Software ("The Loyal Opposition"), and Information Systems Management ("Through a Glass, Darkly").

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD (Linda Rising). INTRODUCTION. I.1 What's the Dark Side? I.1.1 Why
the Dark Side? I.1.2 Who Cares About the Dark Side? I.1.3 How Dark is the
Dark Side? I.1.4 What Else is on the Dark Side? I.1.5 Ethics and the Dark
Side. I.1.6 Personal Anecdotes About the Dark Side. Reference. PART 1: DARK
SIDE ISSUES. CHAPTER 1 SUBVERSION. 1.1 Introductory Case Studies and
Anecdotes. 1.1.1 A Faculty Feedback System. 1.1.2 An Unusual Cooperative
Effort. 1.1.3 Lack of Cooperation due to Self Interest. 1.1.4 An Evil
Teammate. 1.1.5 Thwarting the Evil Union. 1.2 The Survey: Impact of
Subversive Stakeholders On Software Projects. 1.2.1 Introduction. 1.2.2 The
Survey. 1.2.3 The Survey Findings. 1.2.4 Conclusions. 1.2.5 Impact on
Practice. 1.2.6 Impact on Research. 1.2.7 Limitations. 1.2.8 Challenges.
1.2.9 Acknowledgments. 1.3 Selected Responses. 1.3.1 Sample Answers to the
Question: "What Were the Motivations and Goals of the Subversive
Stakeholders?" 1.3.2 Sample Answers to the Question "How Were the
Subversive Attacks Discovered?" 1.3.3 Sample Answers to the Question "How
Can Projects be Defended Against Subversive Stakeholders?" 1.4 A Follow-Up
to the Survey: Some Hypotheses and Related Survey Findings. References.
CHAPTER 2 LYING. 2.1 Introductory Case Studies and Anecdotes. 2.2 Incidents
of Lying: The Survey. 2.2.1 The Survey Results. 2.2.2 General Scope. 2.2.3
An Overview of the Problem. 2.2.4 Clarifi cation of Terms. 2.2.5
Discussion. 2.2.6 Conclusions. 2.2.7 Limitations. 2.3 Qualitative Survey
Responses on Lying. 2.4 What Can Be Done About Lying? 2.5 The Questionnaire
Used in the Survey. References. CHAPTER 3 HACKING. 3.1 Case Studies of
Attacks and Biographies of Hackers. 3.2 Cyber Terrorism and
Government-Sponsored Hacking. 3.3 The Hacker Subculture. 3.3.1 Why They Are
Called "Hackers". 3.3.2 Motivation of Hackers. 3.3.3 Hacker Slang. 3.3.4
Hacker Ethics. 3.3.5 Public Opinion about Hackers. 3.4 How a Hacker Is
Identified. 3.5 Time Line of a Typical Malware Attack. 3.6 Hacker Economy:
How Does a Hacker Make Money? 3.7 Social Engineering. 3.7.1 Social
Engineering Examples and Case Studies. 3.7.2 Tactics of Social Engineering.
3.8 A Lingering Question. 3.9 Late-Breaking News. CHAPTER 4 THEFT OF
INFORMATION. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Case Studies. 4.2.1 Data Theft. 4.2.2
Source Code Theft. 4.3 How Do the Victims Find Out That Their Secrets Are
Stolen? 4.4 Intellectual Property Protection. 4.4.1 Trade Secret
Protection. 4.4.2 Copyright Protection. 4.4.3 Patent Protection. 4.4.4
Steganography. 4.5 Open Versus Closed Source. CHAPTER 5 ESPIONAGE. 5.1
Introduction. 5.2 What Is Espionage? 5.3 Case Studies. 5.3.1 Sweden Versus
Russia. 5.3.2 Shekhar Verma. 5.3.3 Lineage III. 5.3.4 GM versus VW: Jose
Ignacio Lopez. 5.3.5 British Midland Tools. 5.3.6 Solid Oak Software. 5.3.7
Proctor & Gamble versus Unilever. 5.3.8 News Corp Versus Vivendi. 5.3.9
Spying: Was A TI Chip Really Stolen by a French Spy? 5.3.10 Confi cker. 5.4
Cyber Warfare. Reference. CHAPTER 6 DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES AND SABOTAGE. 6.1
Introduction and Background. 6.2 Disgruntled Employee Data Issues. 6.2.1
Data Tampering. 6.2.2 Data Destruction. 6.2.3 Data Made Public. 6.2.4 Theft
Via Data. 6.3 Disgruntled Employee Software Issues. 6.3.1 Software
Destruction. 6.4 Disgruntled Employee System Issues. 6.5 What to Do About
Disgruntled Employee Acts. 6.6 Sabotage. References. CHAPTER 7
WHISTLE-BLOWING. 7.1 A Hypothetical Scenario. 7.2 Whistle-Blowing and
Software Engineering. 7.3 More Case Studies and Anecdotes. 7.3.1 Jeffrey
Wigand and Brown and Williamson Tobacco. 7.3.2 A Longitudinal Study of
Whistle-Blowing. 7.3.3 An Even More Pessimistic View. 7.3.4 Academic
Whistle-Blowing. 7.3.5 The Sum Total of Whistle-Blowing. References.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 7 PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESEARCH INTO
WHISTLE-BLOWING. References. PART 2: VIEWPOINTS ON DARK SIDE ISSUES.
Introduction. CHAPTER 8 OPINIONS, PREDICTIONS, AND BELIEFS. 8.1 Automated
Crime (Donn B. Parker). Information Sources. 8.2 Let's Play Make Believe
(Karl E. Wiegers). Reference. 8.3 Dark, Light, or Just Another Shade of
Grey? (Les Hatton). 8.4 Rational Software Developers as Pathological Code
Hackers (Norman Fenton). CHAPTER 9 PERSONAL ANECDOTES. 9.1 An Offi cer and
a Gentleman Confronts the Dark Side (Grady Booch). 9.2 Less Carrot and More
Stick (June Verner). References. 9.3 "Them and Us": Dispatches from the
Virtual Software Team Trenches (Valentine Casey). 9.4 What is it to Lie on
a Software Project? (Robert N. Britcher). 9.5 "Merciless Control
Instrument" and the Mysterious Missing Fax (A. H. (anonymous)). 9.6 Forest
of Arden (David Alan Grier). 9.7 Hard-Headed Hardware Hit Man (Will Tracz).
9.8 A Lighthearted Anecdote (Eugene Farmer). CONCLUSIONS. INDEX.