The dark side of software engineering: evil on computing projects

FOREWORD /Linda Rising --INTRODUCTION.I.1.What's the Dark Side? --PART 1.DARK SIDE ISSUES --CHAPTER 1.SUBVERSION.1.1.Introductory Case Studies and Anecdotes.1.2.The Survey: Impact of Subversive Stakeholders On Software Projects.1.3.Selected Responses 37.1.4.A Follow-Up to the Survey: Some Hypotheses and Related Survey Findings --CHAPTER 2.LYING.2.1.Introductory Case Studies and Anecdotes.2.2.Incidents of Lying: The Survey.2.3.Qualitative Survey Responses on Lying.2.4.What Can Be Done About Lying?.2.5.The Questionnaire Used in the Survey --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.3.4.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.3.8.A Lingering Question.3.9.Late-Breaking News --CHAPTER 4.THEFT OF INFORMATION.4.1.Introduction.4.2.Case Studies.4.3.How Do the Victims Find Out That Their Secrets Are Stolen?.4.4.Intellectual Property Protection.4.5.Open Versus Closed Source --CHAPTER 5.ESPIONAGE.5.1.Introduction.5.2.What Is Espionage?.5.3.Case Studies.5.4.Cyber Warfare --CHAPTER 6.DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEES AND SABOTAGE.6.1.Introduction and Background.6.2.Disgruntled Employee Data Issues.6.3.Disgruntled Employee Software Issues.6.4.Disgruntled Employee System Issues.6.5.What to Do About Disgruntled Employee Acts.6.6.Sabotage --CHAPTER 7.WHISTLE-BLOWING.7.1.A Hypothetical Scenario.7.2.Whistle-Blowing and Software Engineering.7.3.More Case Studies and Anecdotes.APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 7.PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESEARCH INTO WHISTLE-BLOWING --PART 2.VIEWPOINTS ON DARK SIDE ISSUES --Introduction --CHAPTER 8.OPINIONS, PREDICTIONS, AND BELIEFS.8.1.Automated Crime 246 Donn B. Parker Information Sources.8.2.Let's Play Make Believe /Karl E. Wiegers.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 Officer and a Gentleman Confronts the Dark Side /Grady Booch.9.2.Less Carrot and More Stick /June Verner.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.

Betrayal! Corruption! Software Engineering?This is not a book about software project failure, or about prescriptive thinking about how to build software better. This is a book about the evil things that happen on computing and software projects-what the kinds of evil are, how they manifest themselves, and what the good guys can do about them.In this timely report on vice at every level of software project management, industry experts Johann Rost and Robert Glass explore the seamy underbelly of software engineering. Based on the authors' original research and augmented by frank insights from other well-respected figures, The Dark Side of Software Engineering consists of anecdotes about occurrences of the practices, an analysis of research findings in the context of the anecdotes, and some suggestions on what to do about the dark side. Discussions draw from the software and information technology literature and from the management literature specific to these topics.This is a book full of surprises-to be read by both software and computing practitioners and academics. It addresses seven "dark side matters" of software project work that involve dubious management and technologist practices, including:. Subversion. Espionage. Lying. Disgruntled employees and sabotage. Hacking. Whistleblowing. Theft of informationWritten in a quick-reading journalistic style, 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

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 dollar