Reformed Hacker? According to John Mark off s Odyssey of a Hacker: From Outlaw t

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Reformed Hacker? According to John Mark off s Odyssey of a Hacker: From Outlaw to Consultant, John T. Draper is attempting to become a white-hat hacker as a way of repaying society for previous wrongdoing.62 In the early 1970s, Draper became known as Cap'n Crunch after discovering how to use a toy whistle in the Cap n Crunch cereal box to access the telephone network in order to get free telephone calls. While serving time in jail for his misdeeds, he came up with the early design for Easy Writer, IBM s first word processing program for its first PC in 1981. However, says Mark off, in subsequent years Draper used his skills to hack into computer networks, became a millionaire, lost jobs, and experienced homelessness. Now, however, Draper has been enlisted to help operate an Internet security software and consulting firm that specializes in protecting the online property of corporations. Draper says, I'm not a bad guy However, realizing there are bound to be doubters, he adds, but I'm being treated like a fox trying to guard the hen house. SRI International s computer security expert Peter Neumann summarizes the concern: Whether black hats can become white hats is not a black-and-white question. In general, there are quite a few black hats who have gone straight and become very effective. But the simplistic idea that hiring overtly black-hat folks will increase your security is clearly a myth. Discuss the ethical issues this case raises. What might reasonably convince doubters that Draper has, indeed, reformed? Are customers of the consulting firm entitled to know about Draper s history and his role at the firm? 1) For each case answer the following questions: Summarize each case in 3 to 4 lines paragraph. b. What is/are the ethical problem(s) and issue(s)? c. Apply what you learned in the chapters above on those cases If any, answer the questions in each case

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Ans a) They have started believing that no matter what draper do to reimburse his faults of past,the society wont accept that he has changed alot.As said by markoff,draper tried to hack computer securities and now he being used for cyber protection itself.But still there are people who wont trust him in his job.

Ans b)Ethical problems are situations in which there is a choice to be made between two options, neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable fashion. In such cases, societal and personal ethical guidelines can provide no satisfactory outcome for the chooser.

Ans c)Based on the above chapter i can conclude that whatever we do in the present can affect our moral well being in future if its wrong.Thus we should think and implement whatever we do in life.Morever society never accepts the changes in you so easily and the mindset of them has to be changed with growing time.

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