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Every scenario has multiple solutions. Try to come up with several solutions to each scenario and then examine your solutions using the following value assessment criteria. If you are working in a group, have each member select their personal course of action. Then use the discussion folder assigned to you to evaluate each members' course of action using the criteria below. Remember, no solution should be discounted; make no judgment as to whether a solution is right or wrong.
In examining a solution, consider these concepts:
- Your aversion to punishment.
- Is your solution legal?
- Does it comply with company or school policies?
- Your image.
- Would you like to be analyzed on 60 Minutes?
- Would you be proud to tell your friends or family?
- How will the decision make you feel about yourself?
- Your responsibility.
- Would your decision be fair for all people?
- Do you owe any loyalty to anyone? To what extent?
- How would you behave in a similar situation in a different setting?
- Does your solution actually solve the problem? How long term of a solution is it?
- Your capacity to affect others.
- If you were one of the others involved, how would you see it?
- Could your decision hurt or injure others?
- What if everyone took your course of action?
- How would your decision affect the organization or school as a whole?
Your teacher asks you to make copies of two software programs so that another classroom will not have to continue to borrow them from your class. One program has "Public domain" stamped on the label. The other has "CC, Copyright 1999" on the label. What should you do?
Carrie received a 2,578-page phone bill that listed over 17,000 long-distance calls at the cost of $109,604. At first, the telephone company thought the bill was the result of a "computer error." Upon investigation, they discovered that Carrie was the victim of fraudulent charges to her telephone credit card. It is suspected that her telephone credit card number was shared with people all over the US by means of an electronic bulletin board. Malicious hackers were suspected of being the culprits. Who should pay the phone bill?
Assume you wish to try "hacking" into a computer system. You have never broken in, and you do not desire to get caught. However, you are curious about underground bulletin boards and would like to join one. Your friends give you the secret telephone number of the bulletin board that they use. You call the number, access the board, and discover one of your schoolteacher's credit card number has been posted on the board. Moreover, you are required to post it on another underground bulletin board to demonstrate that you are worthy of club membership. Your friends encourage you to do it. Should you?
Student hackers accessed the computers within the school. They destroyed files, deleted grades, and changed passwords. Service to authorized users was disrupted for hours. Access was made easy because a list of passwords circulated in the school. You have the passwords
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on March 5th, 2001.
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